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Ecbatana

A city of Media, which, according to Herodotus, was built by Dejoces, king of the Medes. It was situated on a gentle declivity, distant twelve stadia from Mount Orontes, and was in compass one hundred and fifty stadia, and, next to Nineveh and Babylon, was one of the strongest and most beautiful cities of the east. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0307
Hebrew
אַחְמְתָא

Strong’s and original-language information

H0307

אַחְמְתָא

Glosses: Ecbatana

Indexed occurrences: 1

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Ecbatana

(Ezra 6:2 marg.). (See [170]ACHMETHA.)

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ECBATANA

a city of Media, which, according to Herodotus, was built by Dejoces, king of the Medes. It was situated on a gentle declivity, distant twelve stadia from Mount Orontes, and was in compass one hundred and fifty stadia, and, next to Nineveh and Babylon, was one of the strongest and most beautiful cities of the east. After the union of Media with Persia, it was the summer residence of the Persian kings.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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