Madai

Mad´ai, third son of Japhet (Gen 10:2), from whom the Medes, etc., are supposed to have descended (Gog; Nations, Dispersion of].

The third son of Japheth, ancestor of the Medes, etc., Gen 10:2 .\par

Mad’a-i. (middle land). Gen 10:2. Madia is usually called the third son of Japhet, and the progenitor of the Medes; but probably all that is intended is that the Medes, as well as the Gomerites, Greeks, Tabareni, Moschi, etc., descended from Japhet.

Gen 10:2, sons, i.e. descendants, of Japheth, an ethnic designation. The Medes, who called themselves Made, S.W. of the Caspian. Some came with the Scythians to Europe, the mixed race formed the Sarmatians. Modern ethnology has found that in physical type and language the Medes belong to the Indo Germanic family of mankind, comprising the Celts, Greeks, Romans, etc.

[Ma’dai]

Son of Japheth and progenitor of the MEDES, q.v. Gen 10:2; 1Ch 1:5. The Hebrew for Madai and Medes is the same.

See MEDIA

MADAI (Gen 10:2 = 1Ch 1:6).—See Medes.

mad´ā́-ı̄, mā´dı (מדי, mādhay). See MEDES.