{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3566",
  "lemma": "כּוֹרֶשׁ",
  "transliteration": "Kôwresh",
  "definition": "Koresh (or Cyrus), the Persian king",
  "kjv": "Cyrus.",
  "occurrences": 15,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ and כֹּ֫רֶשׁ n.pr.m. Cyrus—king of Persia, conqueror of Babylon, restorer of Jews to Palestine"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 44:28",
      "text": "who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/44?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 45:1",
      "text": "The LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/45?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 1:21",
      "text": "Daniel continued even to the first year of King Cyrus.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 10:1",
      "text": "In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/10?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 1:1",
      "text": "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the LORD’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, the LORD…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 1:2",
      "text": "“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 1:7",
      "text": "Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of the LORD’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 1:8",
      "text": "even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/1?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 3:7",
      "text": "They also gave money to the masons and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/3?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 4:3",
      "text": "But Zerubbabel, Yeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel said to them, “You have nothing to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/4?v=3"
    }
  ],
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