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title: מְדִינָה — province · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְדִינָה (4082), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 53 times: province. BDB 1906: n.f. province. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְדִינָה

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«מְדִינָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **province** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 53 times · **Key:** 4082 · **BDB:** מְדִינָה

### Glosses

province (22); the.provinces (17); provinces (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

province [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4082/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. province [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4082/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. province (an Aramaic word, cf. Syriac ܡܕܝܺܢܻܬܳܐ, Arabicمَدِينَةٌ city) cf. also Old Aramaic מדינתא city, Palm. מדיתא city, sf. מדיתהון, pl. מדינתא SAC70 Lzb306 Cooke 266. Est 1:1 + 28 times; pl. מְדִינוֹת 1 K 20:14 + 23 times;—a district of an empire, districts of realm of Ahab with שׂרים over them 1 K 20:14, 15, 17, 19. of the Babylonian empire: Ez 19:8; Dn 8:2 (of Elam); שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֹת princess among the provinces La 1:1 (of Judea). of the Persian empire Est 1:1 + often; one of which was Palestine, Ne 1:3; the returning exiles, בְּנֵי הַמְּדִינָה children of the province Ezr 2:1 Ne 7:6, having רָאשֵׁי הַמְּדִינָה Ne 11:3. provinces in general Ec 2:8; 5:7; בְּמִשְׁמַנֵּי מְדִינָה in the fat places of the province Dn 11:24 (fertile regions, prob. Egypt; other trans. vid. in Bev.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְדִינָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4082/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 20:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.19/)

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וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ יָצְא֣וּ מִן־הָעִ֔יר נַעֲרֵ֖י שָׂרֵ֣י הַמְּדִינ֑וֹת וְהַחַ֖יִל אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and these.\[men\] they.went.out from the city the.young.men of.the.officials of the.provinces and the army which \[was\].behind them

*JPS 1917:* So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

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[Ezekiel 19:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.19.8/)

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וַיִּתְּנ֨וּ עָלָ֥יו גּוֹיִ֛ם סָבִ֖יב מִמְּדִינ֑וֹת וַֽיִּפְרְשׂ֥וּ עָלָ֛יו רִשְׁתָּ֖ם בְּשַׁחְתָּ֥ם נִתְפָּֽשׂ׃

*Word for word:* and they.set on it nations all.around from provinces and they.spread.out over it net their in pit their it.was.caught

*JPS 1917:* Then the nations cried out against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him, he was taken in their pit.

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