a measure; judging; a garment
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
MADAI (Gen_10:2 = 1Ch_1:6).See Medes.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Gen_10:2, sons, i.e. descendants, of Japheth, an ethnic designation. The Medes, who called themselves Made, S.W. of the Caspian. Some came with the Scythians to Europe, the mixed race formed the Sarmatians. Modern ethnology has found that in physical type and language the Medes belong to the Indo Germanic family of mankind, comprising the Celts, Greeks, Romans, etc.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Mad'a-i. (middle land). Gen_10:2. Madia is usually called the third son of Japhet, and the progenitor of the Medes; but probably all that is intended is that the Medes, as well as the Gomerites, Greeks, Tabareni, Moschi, etc., descended from Japhet.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mad?ā́-ı̄, mā?dı (מדי, mādhay). See MEDES.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Mad?ai, third son of Japhet (Gen_10:2), from whom the Medes, etc., are supposed to have descended (Gog; Nations, Dispersion of].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Madai
(Heb. Maday', מָדִי, Sept. Μαδοί, Gen_10:2, a MEDE SEE MEDE [q.v.], as elsewhere rendered), the third son of Japhet (Gen_10:2), from whom the Medes, etc., are supposed to have descended. B.C. post 2514. SEE ETHNOLOGY.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.