Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
from דִּין; properly, a judgeship, i.e. jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region; ([idiom] every) province.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מְדִינָה m.f. province
1. districts of realm of Ahab
2. of the Babylonian empire
3. of the Persian empire
4. provinces in general
Every occurrence
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Ezra 2:1 הַמְּדִינָ֗ה ha.me.di.Nah · A person, place or thing
Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
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