Province
מְדִינָהStrong’s H4083medinah (me-di-nah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medinah is the Aramaic word usually translated “province of”, “province the” and “provinces the”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.”
Meaning
- District, province
How it's translated
- province of 4
- province the 2
- in province of 2
- provinces the 2
- and provinces 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
- Ezra 4
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:49In contextThen Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
- Daniel 3:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:2In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:12In contextThere are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
- Daniel 3:30In contextThen the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.
Aramaic dictionary
מְדִינָה medinah · province
district, province Aramaic of me.di.nah (מְדִינָה "province" H4082)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.