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אַחְמְתָא

ʼAchmᵉthâʼ · H307 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Ecbatana

    Town; in Media

    Examples

    Ezra 6:2 And in Ecbatana, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found; and the following was written in it: “Memorandum—

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
אַחְמְתָא names Achmetha (Ecbatana), the fortress city in Media where the scroll of Cyrus's decree was found.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H307. Achmetha אַחְמְתָא (originally תָן+?תָנָא+?ZA 15, 368) proper name, of a location…
H307. Achmetha
אַחְמְתָא (originally תָן+?תָנָא+?ZA 15, 368)
proper name, of a location Ecbatana, Ezr 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; ᵐ5 Ἐκβατανα2Mace Ezr 9:3 +; MeyGeschichte. d. Alt. i. § 485 Streckl.c. 367 f.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Locations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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