King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H4082
Transliteration: medinah
Phonetic Spelling: (med-ee-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a province
Meaning: a judgeship, jurisdiction, a district, a region
Word Summary
medinah: a province
Original Word: מְדִינָהTransliteration: medinah
Phonetic Spelling: (med-ee-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a province
Meaning: a judgeship, jurisdiction, a district, a region
Strong's Concordance
every province From diyn; properly, a judgeship, i.e. Jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region -- (X every) province.
see HEBREW diyn
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4082. medinah
מְדִינָה noun feminine province (an Aramaic word, compare Syriac , Arabic city) **compare also Old Aramaic מדינתא city, Palmyrene מדיתא city, suffix מדיתהון, plural מדינתא SAC70 Lzb306 Cooke266. — Esther 1:1 28t.; plural מְדִינוֺת 1 Kings 20:14 23t.; — a district of an empire,
1 districts of realm of Ahab with שׂרים over them 1 Kings 20:14-15, 17, 19.
2 of the Babylonian empire: Ezekiel 19:8; Daniel 8:2 (of Elam); בַּמְּדִינוֺת שָׂרָתִי princess among the provinces Lamentations 1:1 (of Judea).
3 of the Persian empire Esther 1:1 + often; one of which was Palestine, Nehemiah 1:3; the returning exiles, הַמְּדִינָה בְּנֵי children of the province Ezra 2:1; Nehemiah 7:6 having הַמְּדִינָה רָאשֵׁי 11:3.
4 provinces in General Ecclesiastes 2:8; 5:7; מְדִינָה בְּמִשְׁמַנֵּי in the fat places of the province Daniel 11:24 (fertile regions, probably Egypt; other translations see in Bev.)