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    Ecbatana

    אַחְמְתָא

    Ecbatana was a city in Media where a scroll was found containing a decree by King Cyrus (Ezra 6:2).

    Where the story of Ecbatana happens Where the gazetteer locates Ecbatana, framed to them: Ecbatana. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Ecbatana
    Where the gazetteer locates Ecbatana
    verses
    1
    first named
    Ezra 6:2
    last named
    Ezra 6:2
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    34.81°N · 48.52°E
    settlement34.81°N · 48.52°E

    Tell Hagmatana (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Ecbatana in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Ecbatana, also known as Achmetha, was an ancient city located in Media, a region in present-day Iran. It served as the capital of the Median Empire and later as a summer residence for Persian kings. In the biblical context, Ecbatana is mentioned in the book of Ezra as the place where a significant scroll was discovered during the reign of King Darius I of Persia (Ezra 6:2). The scroll contained a decree issued by King Cyrus, allowing the Jews to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and authorizing the use of royal funds to support the project. This discovery provided crucial evidence and support for the Jews in their efforts to restore the Temple and re-establish their religious practices in Jerusalem. Ecbatana's mention in the Bible highlights the city's importance as an administrative center and repository of official documents during the Persian period.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Ecbatana is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEZRA1 VERSE51 books and 776 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEZRA1 VERSE51 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Ecbatana is named in 1 verse — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 65 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.

    1. Ezra1 verse

      6:2

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on