Darius
דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁStrong’s H1868daryavesh (dar-ya-vesh)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daryavesh is the Aramaic word usually translated “darius” and “o darius”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.”
Meaning
- Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, king of the Chaldeans, who succeeded to the Babylonian kingdom on the death of Belshazzar; probably the same as "Astyages" the last king of the Medes (538 BC) (same as dar.ya.vesh (דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ "Darius" H1867) (1))
- Darius, the son of Hystaspes, the founder of the Perso-Arian dynasty (521 BC) (same as (2))
- Darius II or Darius III
How it's translated
- darius 10
- to darius 2
- and darius 2
- o darius 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 9
- Daniel 6
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 6:1In contextIt pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
- Daniel 6:6In contextThen these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Daniel 6:9In contextWherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
- Daniel 6:25In contextThen king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
- Daniel 6:28In contextSo this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
- Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Aramaic dictionary
דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ daryavesh · Darius
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.4.5 Aramaic of dar.ya.vesh (דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ "Darius" H1867H) § Darius = "lord" 1) Darius the Mede, the son of Ahasuerus, king of the Chaldeans, who succeeded to the Babylonian kingdom on the death of Belshazzar; probably the same as "Astyages" the last king of the Medes (538 BC) (same as dar.ya.vesh (דָּֽרְיָ֫וֶשׁ "Darius" H1867) (1)) 2) Darius, the son of Hystaspes, the founder of the Perso-Arian dynasty (521 BC) (same as (2)) 3) Darius II or Darius III …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.