Achmetha

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Achmetha
     (Ezra 6:2), called Ecbatana by classical writers, the capital of
     northern Media. Here was the palace which was the residence of
     the old Median monarchs, and of Cyrus and Cambyses. In the time
     of Ezra, the Persian kings resided usually at Susa of Babylon.
     But Cyrus held his court at Achmetha; and Ezra, writing a


     century after, correctly mentions the place where the decree of
     Cyrus was found.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Achmetha, brother of death