Parvaim

Parva´im, a region producing the finest gold (2Ch 3:6). There is very strong reason to conclude, with Bochart, that it is the same with Ophir.

2Ch 3:6, the region of fine gold; probably Ophir; according to Gesenius, the East.\par

Parva’im. (Oriental regions). The name of an unknown place or country, whence the gold was procured for the decoration of Solomon’s Temple. 2Ch 3:6. We may notice the conjecture that it is derived from the Sanscrit purva, "eastern", and is a general term for the east.

Whence gold was brought for Solomon’s temple (2Ch 3:6). From Sanskrit paru "hill," the two hills in Arabia mentioned by Ptolemy (vi. 7, section 11, Hitzig). Abbreviated front Sepharvaim, which stands in Syriac version and the targum of Jonathan for Sephar (Zaphar a seaport on the coast of Hadramaut; Gen 10:30, Knobel). From Sanskrit purva, "eastern" (Gesenius, Thessalonians 2:1125).

[Parva’im]

An unknown gold region. 2Ch 3:6. Supposed by some to be a general term from the Sanscrit for the East.

PARVAIM.—A region whence, according to 2Ch 3:6, the gold was obtained which was used for ornamenting the Temple of Solomon. The name is most plausibly identified with Farwa in Yemen, or S. W. Arabia. It was possibly from this place that the ‘gold of Sheba’ (Psa 72:15; cf. Isa 60:6) was in part derived.

J. F. M‘Curdy.

par-vā´im (פּרוים, parwāyim; Septuagint Pharouaim): The word occurs only in 2Ch 3:6, as the place from which Solomon obtained gold for the decoration of his Temple. A derivation is given from the Sanskrit pūrva, “eastern,” so that the name might be a vague term for the East (Gesenius, Thesaurus, 1125). Whether there was such a place in arabia is doubtful. Farwa in Yemen has been suggested, and also Sāḳ el Farwain in Yemamah. Some have considered the name a shortened form of Ṣ^epharvāyim which occurs in the Syriac and Targum Jonathan for the “Sephar” of Gen 10:30.