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Strong's #4076 - מָדַי
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Medes = “middle land”
1) an inhabitant of Media (noun proper masculine)
2) the territory inhabited by the Medes (noun proper locative)
2a) 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
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2. territory Ezra 6:2.
מָדַי f. (Isaiah 21:2) Media, Genesis 10:2; Esther 1:3; 2 Kings 17:6, 18:11 Jeremiah 25:25, 51:11, 28 Jeremiah 51:28, and the Medes, Isaiah 13:17, 21:2 Daniel 9:1. (syr. ܡܰܕܰܝ id.) Gent. noun מָדִי a Mede, Daniel 11:1. [Various conjectures have been advanced as to the etymology: some of these lead to the signification of midst, middle.]
מָדַי Ch. id. Media, Ezra 6:2; Daniel 5:28, 6:13. Gentile noun emphat. מָדָאָה, מָדָיָא כתיב a Mede, Daniel 6:1.