Midvash

אַחְמְתָאʼAchmᵉthâʼ

proper name [of a location]: Ecbatana, capital of Media, captured by Cyrus (B.C.

Pronunciation: akh-me-thaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H307

Meanings

550), and then summer residence of Persian kings (Ezra 6:2; Ezra 9:3)

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 6:2 But it was at the fortress at Ecbatana in the province of Media that a scroll was found. This is what it said: “Memorandum:

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).