"The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible. The post-exilic portions, Hebrew as well as Aramaic, contain besides many Persian proper names and titles, a number of nouns."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Persian https://twitter.com/anjunahappy/status/1321440014727696384
"E.g., dat (or daad in current Persian) = "law", genez (or ganj in current Persian) = "treasure", pardes (or pardis or ferdos in current Persian) = "park" (which is the main root of the English word "paradise"), which came into permanent use at the time of the Achaemenid Empire."
"More than five hundred years after the end of that dynasty, the Jews of the Babylonian diaspora again came under the dominion of the Persians; and among such Jews the Persian language held a position similar to that held by the Greek language among the Jews of the West."
"Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia." https://twitter.com/NYCNavid/status/1272006852016996355?s=20
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