Paradise

Paradise noun Middle English: from Old French paradis, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek paradisus ‘royal (enclosed) park’, from Avestan pairidaēza ‘walled enclosure, park’.

1): (in some religions) heaven as the ultimate abode of the just.

2): the abode of Adam and Eve before the Fall in the biblical account of the Creation; the Garden of Eden.

3): an ideal or idyllic place or state

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 Paradise is a synonym for the Garden of Eden - Gan Eden in Hebrew. According to Jewish theology, Gan Eden is a term used, in addition to Olam Ha Ba, to refer to one of several Jewish versions of the afterlife. Gan Eden first appears in the book of Genesis when God creates humanity and places them in the Garden of Eden.. It wasn't until much later that Gan Eden also became a term used to refer to one of several Jewish elements of the afterlife. However, as with Olam Ha Ba, there is no definitive answer to what Gan Eden is exactly or how it ultimately fits into the afterlife.   In the Apocalypse of Moses, Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise (instead of Eden) after having been tricked by the serpent. Later after the death of Adam, the Archangel Michael carries the body of Adam to be buried in Paradise, which  is one of the places in the afterlife (Hell). 

      Rabbinic texts discuss Gan Eden as a place where souls go immediately after a person dies. Barakhot 28b, for example, relates the story of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai on his deathbed. Just before he passes away ben Zakki wonders whether he will enter Gan Eden or Gehenna, saying "There are two roads before me, one leading to Gan Eden and the other to Gehenna, and I do know by which I shall be taken.

      Gehenna was thought of as a place of punishment for unrighteous souls. One midrash says, "Why has God created Gan Eden and Gehenna? That one might deliver from the other"

     The New Testament use and understanding of paradise parallels that of Judaism. The word is used three times in the New Testament writings: It refers to one of the two places or conditions that exist in the afterlife i.e. Hell. The two major division of  Hell are Paradise (the Bosom of Abraham) and Prison (called Gehenna or Perdition).