Bible Dictionary
Orchard
An orchard is a planted garden or enclosed park containing trees and fruit. Biblical terms translated this way can also mean a garden, forest, or pleasure ground.
Definition
An orchard is a planted or enclosed garden containing trees or fruit. Related terms may also describe a walled enclosure, park, forest, pleasure ground, or paradise.
Biblical Usage
The supplied material uses the term in passages describing a forest or park and a garden of pomegranates.
Historical Background
The word may represent the Persian-derived pardec and the Greek paradeisos, terms associated with enclosed gardens, Babylonian gardens, game parks, and pleasure grounds. Another term means simply garden or orchard.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Smith's Bible Dictionary
[Garden]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>or'-cherd:</p><p>(1) pardec, from Old Persian, "a walled-in enclosure"; paradeisos, 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 Ne 2:8, "forest," margin "park"; So 4:13, "orchard," margin "paradise" (of pomegranates); Ec 2:5, "parks," the King James Version "orchards"; see PARADISE.</p><p>(2) kepos, "garden" or "orchard": "a white thorn in an orchard" (Baruch 6:71).</p>