1. province, district, administrative region — The feminine noun מְדִינָה (medinah) meaning 'province, district, jurisdiction', denoting an administrative territorial unit under a governing authority. Found primarily in late biblical texts (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, 1 Kings), reflecting the Persian and Babylonian administrative system of satrapies and provinces. All 11 occurrences refer to the same concept: (1) singular/construct/definite 'province of/the province/in the province' (S109857, 8x), as in 'the province of Babylon' or 'the province of Judah'; (2) definite plural 'the provinces' (S109858, 2x); (3) with conjunctive waw 'and provinces' (S109861, 1x). Multilingual translations uniformly reflect a single administrative concept: spa 'la provincia de/las provincias/y provincias', hin 'प्रांत/में प्रांत/और प्रांतों को', arb 'الوِلايَة/الوِلاَيَاتِ/وَ بِ الْبُلْدَانِ', kor '지방/지방들의/그리고 지방들', swa 'mkoa/mikoa/na mikoa'. The variation is purely morphological (number, definiteness, conjunction) with no semantic distinction. 11×
AR["الوِلايَة","الْوِلاَيَاتِ","فِي-وِلاَيَةِ","لِ-وِلَايَةِ","وَ-بِ-الْبُلْدَانِ","وِلايَة","وِلاَيَةِ","وِلَايَةِ"]·ben["-প্রদেশে","আর-প্রদেশগুলির","প্রদেশগুলোর","প্রদেশে","প্রদেশের"]·DE["[במדינת]","[ומדנן]","[מדינת]","[מדינתא]","[מדינתה]"]·EN["and-provinces","in-province-of","province","province-of","the-province","the-province-of","the-provinces"]·FR["[במדינת]","[ומדנן]","[מדינת]","[מדינתא]","[מדינתה]"]·heb["ב-מדינת","ו-מדנן","מדינות","מדינת","מדינתא","מדינתה"]·HI["और-प्रांतों-को","प्रांत","प्रांत-में","प्रांत-में-है","प्रांतों","में-प्रांत"]·ID["dan-provinsi-provinsi","di-provinsi","provinsi","provinsi-provinsi"]·IT["[ומדנן]","[מדינת]","[מדינתא]","[מדינתה]","in-provincia-di","provincia","provincia-di"]·jav["dhateng-griya","ing-propinsi","lan-pambrontakan","propinsi"]·KO["그-지방","그리고-지방들","에-지방","지방","지방들의"]·PT["a-província","a-província-de","as-províncias","e-províncias","na-província-de","província-de"]·RU["-областей","-области","-областью","в-области","и-провинциям","провинции","провинцию"]·ES["en-la-provincia-de","la-provincia","la-provincia-de","las-provincias","provincia","y-provincias"]·SW["jimbo-la","katika-mkoa-wa","mikoa","mkoa","mkoa-wa","na-mikoa"]·TR["eyaletin","eyaletinde","eyaletinde-","eyaletindeki","eyaletine","eyaletinin","ve-eyaletlere"]·urd["اور-صوبوں-کو","صوبوں-کے","صوبے","صوبے-میں","میں-صوبے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מְדִינָה] 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.