King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4074
Transliteration: Maday
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-dah'-ee)
Part of Speech: proper name, of a people
Short Definition: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Media -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land
Word Summary
Maday: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Original Word: מָדַיTransliteration: Maday
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-dah'-ee)
Part of Speech: proper name, of a people
Short Definition: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Media -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land
Strong's Concordance
Madai, Medes, Media Of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia -- Madai, Medes, Media.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4074. Maday
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; 21:2; מָדַי זֶרַע Daniel 9:1; land and people, מָדַי מַלְכֵי Jeremiah 25:25 (+ עֵילָם מַלְכֵי), 51:11, 28; מ ׳מַלְכֵי וּפָרַס Daniel 8:20; compare וּמָדַי מָּרַס Esther 1:3, 14, 18, 19; 10:2; ᵐ5 Μαδαι.
2 of land alone = Media 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11 (both מָדָ֑י עָרֵי).