H4076: מָדַי
Mâday · pronounced maw-dah'-ee · “Mede”
Definition
{Madai, a country of central Asia}
KJV translates it as: Mede(-s).
Word origin: (Aramaic) corresponding to H4074 (מָדַי)
Extended definition
Aramaic of me.dan (מְדָן "Medan" H4091)
§ Medes = "middle land"
1) the territory inhabited by the Medes
2a) 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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4076 is translated
- the medes ×3
- media ×1
- medes ×1
Bible verses with H4076 (Mâday)
Mâday appears in 5 verses.
- Ezra 6:2
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
- Daniel 5:28
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
- Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:12
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
- Daniel 6:15
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.