Strong H4074H4074Iמָדַי
Mede
One of the 3 senses of Strong H4074
- Transliteration
- mâday
- Pronunciation
- maw-dah'ee
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
also called Mede frequently
Group of me.dan (מְדָן "Medan" H4091)
Group of me.dan (מְדָן "Medan" H4091)
Meaning of the name
Media or Medes or Madai = "middle land"
General definition
Of foreign derivation;
{Madai} a country of central Asia: - {Madai} {Medes} Media.
{Madai} a country of central Asia: - {Madai} {Medes} Media.
In the biblical story
Medan
Son of Abraham and Keturah.
Medan was a son of Abraham and his concubine Keturah (Gen.25.2; 1Ch.1.32).
In the Bible
Strong H4074I appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- medes7
First verses
- 2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 18:11And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
- Esther 1:19If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
- Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
- Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
- Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
- Daniel 9:1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;