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Hebrew n--lg · H4076

מָדַי

Madaymaw-dah'-ee

Mede

5 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 H4076is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 4
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4076

{Madai, a country of central Asia}

The King James renders it: Mede(-s).

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 "Mede". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 6:2And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:
  • The Greek text spells it four different ways.

The first use

And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Ezra 6:2בְּמָדַ֥י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's five uses are in Daniel.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Medes2
  • in Media1
  • of Medes1
  • to Medes1

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.

מָדַדmadadto measureUses51
מָדַיMadayMedeUses1
מָדַיMadayMedeUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 5, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

4 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

  • מָדַ֥י2
  • בְּמָדַ֥י1
  • לְמָדַ֥י1
  • לְמָדַ֣י1

The grammar of each form

  • preposition + proper noun (a name)3AR/Npl
  • proper noun (a name)2ANpl

Ezra

one use
  • And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

    Ezra 6:2

    • בְּמָדַ֥יbemadaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Media

Daniel

four uses
  • PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

    Daniel 5:28

    • לְמָדַ֥יlemadaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Medes
  • Therefore, O king, establish the decree and sign the document so that it cannot be changed—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”

    Daniel 6:8

    • מָדַ֥יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Medes
  • So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

    Daniel 6:12

    • מָדַ֥יmadaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Medes
  • Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”

    Daniel 6:15

    • לְמָדַ֣יlemadaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Medes

The letters

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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