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Lexicon :: Strong's H4074 - māḏay

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מָדַי
Transliteration
māḏay
Pronunciation
maw-dah'-ee
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign derivation
Strong’s Definitions

מָדַי Mâday, maw-dah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia:—Madai, Medes, Media.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's H4074 in the following manner: Medes (8x), Media (6x), Madai (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's H4074 in the following manner: Medes (8x), Media (6x), Madai (2x).
  1. Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"

    proper masculine noun
    1. a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media

      proper locative noun
    2. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָדַי Mâday, maw-dah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia:—Madai, Medes, Media.
STRONGS H4074: Abbreviations
מָדַי proper name, of a people or territory 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 וּמָדַי פָּרַס Esther 1:3, 14, 18, 19; Esther 10:2; Greek Version of the LXX Μαδαι.
2. of land alone = Media 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11 (both עָרֵי מָדָ֑י).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:2; 10:2

2 Kings

17:6; 18:11

1 Chronicles

1:5

Esther

1:3; 1:14; 1:18; 1:19; 10:2

Isaiah

13:17; 21:2

Jeremiah

25:25; 51:11; 51:28

Daniel

8:20; 9:1

H4074

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4074 matches the Hebrew מָדַי (māḏay),
which occurs 16 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:2 - The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, H4074 and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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. H4074
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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: H4074
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:5 - The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, H4074 and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 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, H4074 the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:14 - And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, H4074 which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:18 - Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media H4074 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 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, H4074 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 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 H4074 and Persia?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - Behold, I will stir up the Medes H4074 against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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; H4074 all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:25 - And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, H4074
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 - Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: H4074 for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, H4074 the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:20 - The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media H4074 and Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, H4074 which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
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