Strong's Definition
of foreign derivation; Madai, a country of central Asia
KJV Usage: Madai, Medes, Media
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָדַי (ma.day) — Madai. A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.2; son of: Japheth (H3315); brother of: Gomer (H1586), Magog (H4031), Javan (H3120), Tubal (H8422), Meshech (H4902) and Tiras (H8494) § Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land" 1) a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media 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
מָדַי (ma.day) — Media.
§ Media = "middle land" 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
מָדַי (ma.day) — Mede. also called Mede frequently Group of me.dan (מְדָן "Medan" H4091) § Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land" 1) a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
name · מָדִי
Names of People
Madai = man; ◄ son of Japheth; ► regarded as the founder of the Medians
Names of Groups | Names of Locations
Mede(s), Media = a nation and their territory; ◄ regarded as founded by Madai; the empire was consolidated in the 6th-5th BCE and stretched from Mesopotamia to Turkey
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מָדַי n.pr.gent. et terr. Medes, Media people, as ‘son’ of Japhet
of land alone = Media
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