Mâday — H4074

Definition

masculine locative proper noun

Madai, a country of central Asia

1. Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
2. n pr m
3. a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media
4. n pr loc
5. 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

Usually translated as

Medes, Media, Madai

Origin

of foreign derivation

Greek equivalents

• Mēdos (G3370)

Occurrences

Mâday occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (1), Esther (5), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (3), Daniel (2)

• Genesis 10:2 — The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai (וּמָדַ֖י), and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
• 2 Kings 17:6 — In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes (מָדָֽי).
• 2 Kings 18:11 — And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes (מָדָֽי):
• 1 Chronicles 1:5 — The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai (וּמָדַ֖י), and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
• Esther 1:3 — In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media (וּמָדַ֗י), the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
• Esther 1:14 — And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media (וּמָדַ֗י), which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
• Esther 1:18 — Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media (וּמָדַ֗י) say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
• Esther 1:19 — If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes (וּמָדַ֖י), that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
• Esther 10:2 — And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media (מָדַ֥י) and Persia?
• Isaiah 13:17 — Behold, I will stir up the Medes (מָדָ֑י) against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
• Isaiah 21:2 — A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media (מָדַ֔י); all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
• Jeremiah 25:25 — And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes (מָדָֽי),
• Jeremiah 51:11 — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes (מָדַ֔י): for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
• Jeremiah 51:28 — Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes (מָדַ֔י), the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
• Daniel 8:20 — The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media (מָדַ֥י) and Persia.
• Daniel 9:1 — In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes (מָדָ֑י), which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;