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The word pardes is also an acronym for a very ancient form of Biblical interpretation. Most other translations translate the word pardes as an “orchard.” While this is the meaning of the word, the idea of a paradise (from a Hebraic perspective) better illustrates the true meaning of the word. You have just entered a “paradise,” a place where you can lay in the cool shade of the trees and eat the wet and sweet fruit from the trees. Then you come over a rise and see before you an orchard of fruit trees. What is a paradise? The American Heritage Dictionary provides the following definition, “A place of ideal beauty or loveliness.” While this is an appropriate definition for the English word “paradise,” let’s not forget that the Hebrews thought in concrete terms rather than in abstract ones like “beauty” and “loveliness.” A more Hebraic definition would be, “A place of ideal rest and sustenance.” Imagine yourself walking through the desert you’re hot, tired and hungry. Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits, (YLT, Song of Solomon 4:13) I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit. In the Young’s Literal Translation (YLT - I like the YLT but it is not as “literal” as it could be) this Hebrew word is translated as “paradise.”Īnd a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king. The Hebrew word פרדס ( pardes, Strong's #6508) only appears three times in the Hebrew Bible. Using PaRDeS for Biblical Interpretation By Jeff A.