STRONGS NUMBER H307

H307. Achmetha

אַחְמְתָא‎ (originally תָן‎+?תָנָא‎+?^{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 9:3 +; Mey^{Geschichte. d. Alt. i. § 485} Streck^{l.c. 367 f}.