Cyrus the Great
- Role
- king
- Era
- 600 BC–530 BC
- Passages
- 15
- Named in
- Old Testament (4 books)
Founder of the Persian empire, remembered for permitting exiled peoples to return.
The name
- כּ֣וֹרֶשׁ Ko.resh — Cyrus lexicon
- כּ֤וֹרֶשׁ Ko.resh — Cyrus
More than one form is recorded — a renaming, or the Greek and Hebrew of the same person. They are listed under one entry rather than as separate people.
Outside scripture
Critical
His policy of returning deported peoples and restoring their sanctuaries is documented in his own words, and matches the return described in Ezra.
Attestation. The Cyrus Cylinder, British Museum, 539 BC; Herodotus, Histories 1.
This is a question of evidence, not of doctrine, and is kept separate from the disagreements above for that reason.
Places named alongside
Named in
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
- 2 Chronicles 36:23
- Ezra 1:1
- Ezra 1:2
- Ezra 1:7
- Ezra 1:8
- Ezra 3:7
- Ezra 4:3
- Ezra 4:5
- Ezra 5:13
- Ezra 6:3
- Isaiah 44:28
- Isaiah 45:1
- Daniel 1:21
- Daniel 10:1
Passages are linked from the tagged text; the summary and any positions above are written by hand and cited.