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# מְדִינָה

Biblical Aramaic

**district** — used 11 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

district [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b4_5d9_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְדִינָה: district, province [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b4_5d9_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. f. (judicial) district, province (K§ 60, 3) d); also BH);—emph. מְדִינְתָּא (M-A§ 72 c) Ezr 5:8; 6:2; cstr. מְדִינַת Dn 2:48, 49; 3:1, 12, 30; Ezr 7:16; pl. abs. מְדִנָן 4:15, emph. מְדִינָתָא Dn 3:2, 3.

### Jastrow 1903

מְדִינָה: jurisdiction district, country. province; large town, capital ʿir m’dinah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b4_5d9_5e0_5b8_5d4/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** \[jurisdiction,\] district, country. Maas. Sh. III, 4 (contrad. to Jerusalem). R. Hash. IV, 3; Succ. III, 12 (contrad. to the Sanctuary); a. fr.—In gen. province; large town, capital. Pes. 51ᵃ כל המ׳ all the people of the place. Gen. R. s. 50, end, v. עִירוֹנִי. Esth. R. to I, 1 כל מקום שנ׳ … עיר מ׳ מ׳ אפרכיה wherever ʿir is used in the Scriptures, it means a capital, wherever m’dinah is used, it means an hyparchia (province); a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the province (5); of (2); the (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 3:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.3.30/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֗א הַצְלַ֛ח לְשַׁדְרַ֥ךְ מֵישַׁ֛ךְ וַעֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ עֲבֵ֥ד נְג֖וֹ בִּמְדִינַ֥ת בָּבֶֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* then the king he.caused.to.prosper (et) Shadrach Meshach and.Abednego and.Abednego in the.province of.Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon.

[Ezra 6:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.2/#tree)

וְהִשְׁתְּכַ֣ח בְּאַחְמְתָ֗א בְּבִֽירְתָ֛א דִּ֛י בְּמָדַ֥י מְדִינְתָּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֣ה חֲדָ֑ה וְכֵן־כְּתִ֥יב בְּגַוַּ֖הּ דִּכְרוֹנָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was.found in Ecbatana in the citadel which \[is\].in Media the province a.scroll one and as.follows it.was.written in midst its (the) memorandum

*JPS 1917:* And there was found at Ahmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written: 'A record.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b4_5d9_5e0_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5d3_5b4_5d9_5e0_5b8_5d4/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).