Strong H4076H4076Hמָדַי
Media
One of the 2 senses of Strong H4076
- Transliteration
- mâday
- Pronunciation
- maw-dah'ee
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Aramaic of ma.day (מָדַי "Media" H4074H)
Meaning of the name
Medes = "middle land"
General definition
(Chaldee); corresponding to H4074 : - Mede (-s).
In the biblical story
Media
An ancient kingdom; part of the Persian Empire
Media (Medes), an ancient kingdom in western Iran that, along with Persia, conquered Babylon and formed the Persian Empire (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; Esther 1:3, 14, 18; 10:2; Isaiah 21:2; Jeremiah 25:25; Daniel 8:20).
In the Bible
Strong H4076H appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- medes1
First verses
- Ezra 6:2And 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: