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

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.