me.di.nah denotes an administrative territorial unit, especially one within a king’s realm.

The term designates an administrative territorial unit, most often the individual areas belonging to a king’s realm and addressed through officials, laws, or letters. It can also locate people or places within such a unit, as with Elam, Jerusalem and Judah, and the returned community.

1. Administrative territorial unit within a realm · dominant

   The singular and plural forms identify the territorial units of a king’s realm: in Esther 3:12 the APB renders an edict directed to governors over each province and issued province by province according to its script and people. In Esther 8:9, letters go to officials across the realm, again described unit by unit; Daniel 8:2 places Susa in the province of Elam. The same designation locates the returned community in Ezra 2:1 and Nehemiah 1:3, while 1 Kings 20:14 refers to governors associated with these units.

   Esther 3:12Esther 8:9Daniel 8:2Ezra 2:1Nehemiah 1:31 Kings 20:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the territorial designation as “province” or “provinces,” especially in royal administrative and letter-sending contexts. In Ecclesiastes 5:7, the supplied APB text does not visibly reflect the term’s contribution, so that verse cannot establish a separate rendering.