ORCHARD (pardçs [a Pers. loan-word], Ecc_2:5 RV [Note: Revised Version.] parks; Son_4:13 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] paradise; Neh_2:8 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] forest, RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] park).See Paradise.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Orchard. See Garden.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ôr?chẽrd: (1) פּרדּס, pardēṣ, from Old Persian, ?a walled-in enclosure?; παράδεισος, parádeisos, a word in classical Greek applied to the garden of Babylon (Diodorus Siculus xi. 10) and to a game park (Xenophon, Anab. i. 2, 7). See Neh_2:8, ?forest,? margin ?park?; Son_4:13, ?orchard,? margin ?paradise? (of pomegranates); Ecc_2:5, ?parks,? the King James Version ?orchards?; see PARADISE. (2) κῆπος, kḗpos, ?garden? or ?orchard?: ?a white thorn in an orchard? (Baruch 6:71).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Son_4:13 (c) We may understand this to be a sweet expression which describes the various groups of GOD's people. In these groups our Lord delights to make His abode, and to enjoy the fruitfulness and the fragrance of their worship.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.
Orchard
is the rendering in the A.V. of פִּרְדֵּס, pardes, a park or garden planted with trees (Ecc_2:5; Son_4:14; forest, Neh_2:8); and of oliretium (orchard of olives), an olive-yard (2Es_16:29). SEE GARDEN; SEE OLIVE-YARD.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.