Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Achmetha
Phonetic Spelling: (akh-me-thaw')
Short Definition: Ecbatana אַחְמְתָא (originally תָן#NAME?תָנָא#NAME?^{ZA 15, 368})

proper name, of a location Ecbatana, Ezra 6:2; capital of Media, captured by Cyrus ( B.C. 550), and then summer residence of Persian kings; modern „amadân, Spieg²⁴⁴ Margoliouth^{Hast. DB ACHMETHA,} especially Brugsch^{Reise n. Persien (1862), i. 360-392} (Old Median Agmatana Dl^{Calwer Bib. Lex}.; Old Persian Hangamata§na (=place of assembling) Spieg^l.c., Babylonian Agam(a)tanu Beh⁶⁰, Bez^{p. 26, etc}.; Ἀγβάτανα Herod^{i. 98}; ᵐ5 Ἐκβατανα2Mace Ezra 9:3 +; Mey^{Geschichte. d. Alt. i. § 485} Streck^{l.c. 367 f}.

Achmetha

Of Persian derivation; Achmetha (i.e. Ecbatana), the summer capital of Persia -- Achmetha.

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