Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4074
מָדַי
Madaymaw-dah'-ee
Madai
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mâday
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4074is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4074
Madai, a country of central Asia
The King James renders it: Madai, Medes, Media.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Maday is rendered "Madai". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:2וּמָדַ֖י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Media9
- and Media4
- and Madai2
- O Media1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָדַד | madad | to measure | Uses51 |
| מָדַי | Maday | Mede | Uses5 |
| מָדַי | Maday | Mede | Uses1 |
| מָדַי | Maday | Mede | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמָדַ֖י3
- וּמָדַ֗י3
- מָדַ֔י3
- מָדַ֥י2
- מָדָ֑י2
- מָדָֽי׃2
- מָדָֽי׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)10HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
Genesis
one use
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- וּמָדַ֖יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Madai
2 Kings
two uses
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- מָדָֽי׃ פmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- מָדָֽי׃madaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
1 Chronicles
one use
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- וּמָדַ֖יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Madai
Esther
five uses
In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
- וּמָדַ֗יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Media
His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
- וּמָדַ֗יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Media
This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.
- וּמָדַ֗יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Media
So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
- וּמָדַ֖יumadaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Media
And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
- מָדַ֥יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
Isaiah
two uses
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
- מָדָ֑יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- מָדַ֔יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: O Media
Jeremiah
three uses
all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;
- מָדָֽי׃madaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
- מָדַ֔יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
- מָדַ֔יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
Daniel
two uses
The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.
- מָדַ֥יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—
- מָדָ֑יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Media
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.