Word

מָדַי

Mâday · H4076 · Aramaic · 6 occurrences

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Place

Mediafirst named in Ezra 6:28 verses

Meanings

A nation and their territory; regarded as founded by Madai; the empire was consolidated in the 6th-5th and stretched from Mesopotamia to Turkey (Mede(s), Media)

Examples
Ezra 6:2 And in Ecbatana, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found; and the following was written in it: “Memorandum—
Daniel 5:28 “‘PERES’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel 6:8 “Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it will not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דָּֽרְיָוֵשׁDarius 1
מְדִינָהprovince 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 3
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

דָּתdecree 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

מָדַי Mâday · H4074 · Madai, Mede(s), Media: מָדַי (Mâday, H4074) מָדַי is a variant spelling of the same name as מָדַי (Mâday, H4076) מָדַי (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.

In the other Testament 1 word

Μῆδος Mēdos · G3370 · a Mede: Greek proper noun for the same ethnic/geographic referent (Medes); the standard LXX and NT translation equivalent for Hebrew מָדַי.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Names of People003001007: This entry is another attested form of the gentilic Mede(s), referring to individual Medians, as in Daniel 5:28's kingdom "given to the Medes and Persians," placing it among personal/ethnic names.
Names of Groups003001006: The same form designates the Medes collectively as a people, as in Daniel 6:8's "law of the Medes and Persians," placing it among named groups.
Names of Locations003001010: The source data also assigns this entry the Names of Locations domain, reflecting the associated land of Media, though this entry's own sampled citations attest the people/ethnic sense rather than the land itself.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4076. Maday מָדַי proper name, of a people or territory Medes, Media (Biblical Hebrew…

H4076. Maday
מָדַי proper name, of a people or territory Medes, Media (Biblical Hebrew id.); — 1. of a people Dan 5:28; Dan 6:9; Dan 6:13; Dan 6:16.
2. territory Ezr 6:2.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0