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HebrewH4074Proper Noun (Masculine)

מָדַי

ma.day

16Occurrences
H4074Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Madai, a country of central Asia

of foreign derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Japheth (H3315); brother of: Gomer (H1586), Magog (H4031), Javan (H3120), Tubal (H8422), Meshech (H4902) and Tiras (H8494) § Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land" 1) a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of ) 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מָדַי appears 16 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
5
Jeremiah
3
2 Kings
2
Daniel
2
Isaiah
2
1 Chronicles
1
Genesis
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:5BSB

The sons of Japheth:Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Daniel 8:20BSB

The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

Esther 1:14BSB

His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.

Esther 10:2BSB

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Isaiah 21:2BSB

A dire vision is declared to me:“The traitor still betrays,and the destroyer still destroys.Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media!I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.