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Strong's #4076 - מָדַי

Transliteration

Mâday

Phonetics

maw-dah'ee

Root Word (Etymology)

corresponding to (H4074)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Medes = “middle land”

1) an inhabitant of Media (noun proper masculine)

2) the territory inhabited by the Medes (noun proper locative)

2a) located northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, and west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iram

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (5)

Ezra 1

Daniel 4

NAS (5)

Ezra 1

Daniel 4

HCS (6)

Ezra 1

Daniel 5

BSB (5)

Ezra 1

Daniel 4

ESV (5)

Ezra 1

Daniel 4

WEB (5)

Ezra 1

Daniel 4

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מָדַי proper name, of a people or territory Medes, Media (Biblical Hebrew id.); — 1. of a people Daniel 5:28; Daniel 6:9; Daniel 6:13; Daniel 6:16.

2. territory Ezra 6:2.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מָדַי f. (Isaiah 21:2) Media, Genesis 10:2; Esther 1:3; 2 Kings 17:6, 18:11 Jeremiah 25:25, 51:11, 28 Jeremiah 51:28, and the Medes, Isaiah 13:17, 21:2 Daniel 9:1. (syr. ܡܰܕܰܝ id.) Gent. noun מָדִי a Mede, Daniel 11:1. [Various conjectures have been advanced as to the etymology: some of these lead to the signification of midst, middle.]

מָדַי Ch. id. Media, Ezra 6:2; Daniel 5:28, 6:13. Gentile noun emphat. מָדָאָה, מָדָיָא כתיב a Mede, Daniel 6:1.

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List of Word Forms

בְּמָדַ֥י במדי לְמָדַ֣י לְמָדַ֥י למדי מָדַ֥י מדי bə·mā·ḏay bemaDai bəmāḏay lə·mā·ḏay lemaDai ləmāḏay mā·ḏay maDai māḏay