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Strong's #4074 - מָדַי

Transliteration

Mâday

Phonetics

maw-dah'ee

Origin

of foreign derivation

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
n pr m
1. a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media
n pr loc
1. land inhabited by the descendants of Japheth; 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

ASV (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

BSB (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

CSB (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

ESV (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

KJV (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

LEB (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

LSB (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

N95 (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

NAS (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (16)

Genesis 1

2 Kings 2

1 Chronicles 1

Esther 5

Isaiah 2

Jeremiah 3

Daniel 2

ASV (16)

and madai 2

and media 3

and the medes 1

o media 1

of media 2

of the medes 6

the medes 1

BSB (16)

a mede 1

and media 4

madai 2

media 1

o media 1

of media 2

of the medes 4

the medes 1

CSB (16)

madai 2

mede 1

media 7

of media 1

of the medes 1

the medes 3

you medes 1

ESV (16)

madai 2

mede 1

medes 6

media 7

KJV (16)

madai 2

medes 8

media 6

LEB (16)

and media 3

and media so that 1

madai 2

media 4

the medes 5

the medes up 1

LSB (16)

madai 2

medes 6

media 8

N95 (16)

madai 2

medes 5

media 8

median 1

NAS (16)

madai 2

medes 5

media 8

median 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (16)

and madai 1

and media 3

and the medes 1

madai 1

of media 2

of the medes 6

the medes 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מָדַי proper name, of a people et

terr. Medes, Media (Old Persian Mâda Sp^APK, Assyrian Madai COT^{Gloss, and on Genesis 10.. 2} Dl^{Par. 247}); —

1 people, as 'son' of Japhet Genesis 10:2 (P) = 1 Chronicles 1:5; as hostile power Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 21:2; זֶרַע מָדַי Daniel 9:1; land and people, מַלְכֵי מָדַי Jeremiah 25:25 (+ מַלְכֵי עֵילָם), Jeremiah 51:11,28; וּפָרַס׳מַלְכֵי מ Daniel 8:20; compare מָּרַס וּמָדַי Esther 1:3,14,18,19; Esther 10:2; ᵐ5 Μαδαι.

2 of land alone = Media 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11 (both עָרֵי מָדָ֑י).

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

וּמָדַ֖י וּמָדַ֗י ומדי מָדַ֔י מָדַ֥י מָדָ֑י מָדָֽי׃ מדי מדי׃ mā·ḏay mā·ḏāy maDai māḏay māḏāy ū·mā·ḏay umaDai ūmāḏay