Lexicon medinah: a province Original Word: מְדִינָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: medinah Phonetic Spelling: (med-ee-naw') Short Definition: provinces NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dinDefinitiona province NASB Translationeach (3), each province (3), every province (2), province (10), provinces (28), realm (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מְדִינָה noun feminine province (an Aramaic word, compare Syriac  , Arabic  city) **compare also Old Aramaic מדינתא city, Palmyrene מדיתא city, suffix מדיתהון, plural מדינתא SAC 70 Lzb 306 Cooke 266. — 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); שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֺת 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, בְּנֵי הַמְּדִינָה children of the province Ezra 2:1; Nehemiah 7:6 having רָאשֵׁי הַמְּדִינָה Nehemiah 11:3. 4 provinces in General Ecclesiastes 2:8; Ecclesiastes 5:7; בְּמִשְׁמַנֵּי מְדִינָה in the fat places of the province Daniel 11:24 (fertile regions, probably Egypt; other translations see in Bev.)
Strong's 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 |
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