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Lexicon :: Strong's H4076 - 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)
Corresponding to מָדַי (H4074)
Strong’s Definitions

מָדַי Mâday, maw-dah'-ee; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4074:—Mede(-s).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's H4076 in the following manner: Medes (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's H4076 in the following manner: Medes (5x).

  1. Medes = "middle land"

    proper masculine noun

    1. an inhabitant of Media

      proper locative noun

    2. the territory inhabited by the Medes

      1. 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; (Aramaic) corresponding to H4074:—Mede(-s).
STRONGS H4076: Abbreviations

Biblical Aramaic

† מָדַי proper name, of a people or territory Medes, Media (Biblical Hebrew id.); —
1. of a people Daniel 5:28; Daniel 6:9 [Daniel 6:8]; Daniel 6:13 [Daniel 6:12]; Daniel 6:16 [Daniel 6:15].
2. territory Ezra 6:2.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

6:2

Daniel

5:28; 6:8; 6:12; 6:15

H4076

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Strong's Number H4076 matches the Hebrew מָדַי (māḏay),
which occurs 5 times in 5 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:2 - And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:28 - Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:8 - Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:15 - Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”
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