Bible Person

Madai

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