28 Peres means “separate”. It shows that God has cut your kingdom into two separate parts. He has given it to the people from Media and Persia.’
5:28‘Parsin’ and ‘Peres’ are the same word. ‘Peres’ is for one (singular) and ‘Parsin’ is for many (plural). ‘Peres’ also sounds like ‘Persia’. Persia was the country that we call Iran today.
