STRONGS NUMBER H307


Word Summary
Achmetha: the capital of Media
Original Word: אַחְמְתָא
Transliteration: Achmetha
Phonetic Spelling: (akh-me-thaw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: the capital of Media
Meaning: Ecbatana -- the capital of Media
Strong's Concordance
Achmetha

Of Persian derivation; Achmetha (i.e. Ecbatana), the summer capital of Persia -- Achmetha.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H307. Achmetha

אַחְמְתָא‎ (originally תָן‎+?תָנָא‎+?ZA 15, 368)

proper name, of a location Ecbatana, Ezra 6:2; capital of Media, captured by Cyrus ( B.C. 550), and then summer residence of Persian kings; modern „amadân, Spieg244 MargoliouthHast. DB ACHMETHA, especially BrugschReise n. Persien (1862), i. 360-392 (Old Median Agmatana DlCalwer Bib. Lex.; Old Persian Hangamata§na (=place of assembling) Spiegl.c., Babylonian Agam(a)tanu Beh60, Bezp. 26, etc.; Ἀγβάτανα Herodi. 98; ᵐ5Ἐκβατανα2Mace 9:3 +; MeyGeschichte. d. Alt. i. § 485 Streckl.c. 367 f.