Strong's H4074 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מָדַי (Mâday)

Pronunciation: maw-dah'-ee

Morphology: n-pr-m n-pr-loc

Part of Speech: n pr m, n pr loc

Name Meaning: Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"

Derivation: of foreign derivation

Definition: Madai, a country of central Asia

KJV Renderings: Madai, Medes, Media

Senses

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

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