Lexicon Maday: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land Part of Speech: proper name, of a people Transliteration: Maday Phonetic Spelling: (maw-dah'-ee) Short Definition: Media NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitiona son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land NASB TranslationMadai (2), Medes (5), Media (8), Median (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מָדַי proper name, of a people et terr. Medes, Media (Old Persian Mâda SpAPK, Assyrian Madai COTGloss, and on Genesis 10.. 2 DlPar. 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).
Strong's Madai, Medes, Media Of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia -- Madai, Medes, Media. |
    |