Words the Bible translates as district
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- horionὅριονthe territory belonging to a town or a people: its district, the land lying inside its recognized limits
- medinahמְדִינָהdistrict: a region or jurisdiction within a single kingdom, not an imperial province
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- province: an administrative region of an empire, governed for a distant king
- perichōrosπερίχωροςthe surrounding country: the open land, farms, and villages lying around a town, lake, or river.
- pelekhפֶּלֶךְa district: an administrative division of the land with an official set over it
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- a spindle: the weighted hand tool used to twist loose wool or flax into thread
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