Strong's #4074: Maday (pronounced maw-dah'-ee)
of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia:--Madai, Medes, Media.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâday
Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
1) a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media (noun proper masculine)
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 (noun proper locative)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: of foreign derivation
Usage:
This word is used 16 times:
Genesis 10:2: "of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."
2 Kings 17:6: "them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes."
2 Kings 18:11: "by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:"
1 Chronicles 1:5: "of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras."
Esther 1:3: "and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before"
Esther 1:14: "the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat"
Esther 1:18: "Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's"
Esther 1:19: "from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered,"
Esther 10:2: "the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?"
Isaiah 13:17: "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard"
Isaiah 21:2: "Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease."
Jeremiah 25:25: "of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,"
Jeremiah 51:11: "the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon,"
Jeremiah 51:28: "her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers"
Daniel 8:20: "having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia."
Daniel 9:1: "the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over"
