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Parvaim

 

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

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