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# מָדַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4074

**Madai** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Madai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4074/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָדַי: n.pr.gent. terr. Medes, Media [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4074/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. Medes, Media (OPers. Mâda SpAPK, Assyrian Madai COTGloss, and on Gn 10:2 DlPar. 247);— people, as ‘son’ of Japhet Gn 10:2 (P) = 1 Ch 1:5; as hostile power Is 13:17; 21:2; זֶרַע מָדַי Dn 9:1; land and people, מַלְכֵי מָדַי Je 25:25 (+ מַלְכֵי עֵילָם), 51:11, 28; מַלְכֵי מ׳ וּפָרַס Est 10:2; Dn 8:20; cf. פָּרַס וּמָדַי Est 1:3, 14, 18, 19; 𝔊 Μαδαι. of land alone = Media 2 K 17:6; 18:11 (both עָרֵי מָדָ֑י).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Media (8); Media (5); Madai (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 8:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.20/#tree)

הָאַ֥יִל אֲשֶׁר־רָאִ֖יתָ בַּ֣עַל הַקְּרָנָ֑יִם מַלְכֵ֖י מָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the ram which you.saw the.possessor of the.two.horns \[is\].the.kings of.Media and Persia

*JPS 1917:* The ram which thou sawest having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

[Genesis 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.2/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י יֶ֔פֶת גֹּ֣מֶר וּמָג֔וֹג וּמָדַ֖י וְיָוָ֣ן וְתֻבָ֑ל וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ וְתִירָֽס׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Japheth \[were\].Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4074.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4074/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).