- Original: מדי
- Transliteration: Maday
- Phonetic: maw-dah'-ee
- Definition: media or medes or Madai = middle land n pr m
1. a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of media n pr loc
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
- Origin: of foreign derivation
- TWOT entry: None
- Part(s) of speech:
- Strong's: Of foreign derivation;
Madai a country of central Asia: - Madai Medes Media.
Total KJV Occurrences: 16
• Madai, 2
Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5
• Medes, 8
2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11; Esther 1:19; Isaiah 13:17; Jeremiah 25:25; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:28; Daniel 9:1
• Media, 6
Esther 1:3; Esther 1:14; Esther 1:18; Esther 10:2; Isaiah 21:2; Daniel 8:20