Original: מָדַי

Transliteration: Mâday

Phonetic: maw-dah'-ee

Short Definition: Madai

Original: מדי

Transliteration: mâday

Phonetic: maw-dah'-ee

BDB Definition:

Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"

1. a people descended from the son of Japheth and who inhabited the territory of Media (noun proper masculine)
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 (noun proper locative)

Origin: of foreign derivation

TWOT entry: None

Part(s) of speech:

Cognate: H4063, H4075