Province
מְדִינָהStrong’s H4082medinah (me-di-nah)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medinah is the Hebrew word usually translated “province”, “provinces of” and “provinces”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.”
Meaning
- Province, districtdistrict · province
How it's translated
- province 13
- provinces of 11
- and province 10
- the provinces 8
- the province 4
- in the province 2
- for the provinces 1
- in provinces of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 26
- 1 Kings 4
- Nehemiah 3
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:24In contextHe shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
- 1 Kings 20:14And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
- 1 Kings 20:15Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
- 1 Kings 20:17And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
- 1 Kings 20:19So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.
- Ezra 2:1Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
Hebrew dictionary
מְדִינָה medinah · province
1) province, district 1a) district 1b) province Aramaic equivalent: me.di.nah (מְדִינָה "province" H4083)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “province” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PROV'INCE, noun
[Latin provincia; usually supposed to be formed from pro and vinco, to conquer. This is very doubtful, as provinco was not used by the Romans.]
- Among the Romans, a country of considerable extent, which being reduced under their dominion, was new-modeled, subjected to the command of an annual governor sent from Rome, and to such taxes and contributions as the Romans saw fit to impose.
- Among the moderns, a country belonging to a kingdom or state, either by conquest or colonization, usually situated at a distance from the kingdom or state, but more or less dependent on it or subject to it.
- A division of a kingdom or state, of considerable extent.
- A region of country; in a general sense; a tract; a large extent.
All definitions
- The proper office or business of a person.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.