Bible Person
Meaning: a measure; judging; a garment · Male · 2 cross references
Madai is listed among the sons of Japheth in the table of nations and stands behind the people later known as the Medes. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral nation-name preserved in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:2.1
AI summary: Madai matters because the cross references place the Medes within Genesis' foundational ordering of the nations. Even without a personal narrative, the name helps Scripture connect later peoples and empires to an early remembered human family structure. Taken together, the material presents Madai as an ancestral marker in the biblical imagination of world history.1
Central Figure
Madai
Meaning: a measure; judging; a garment
Middle land, the third “son” of Japheth (Gen.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.