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H4076H

מָדַי

ma.dayN:N--L

Media

Aramaic of ma.day (מָדַי "Media" H4074H) § Medes = "middle land" the territory inhabited by the Medes 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

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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 Ezra 6:2.

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