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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36516" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36516" /> == | ||
<p> Genesis 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. </p> | <p> Genesis 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. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73833" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73833" /> == | ||
<p> '''Mad'a-i.''' (middle land). Genesis 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. </p> | <p> '''Mad'a-i.''' ''(middle land).'' Genesis 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. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67523" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67523" /> == | ||
<p> Son of [[Japheth]] and progenitor of the | <p> Son of [[Japheth]] and progenitor of the [[Medes,]] <i> q.v. </i> Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5 . The [[Hebrew]] for [[Madai]] and Medes is the same. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52619" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52619" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Madai]] </strong> ( [[Genesis]] 10:2 = 1 Chronicles 1:6 ). See Medes. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42243" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42243" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49386" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49386" /> == | ||
<p> (Heb. Maday', מָדִי, Sept. Μαδοί , Genesis 10:2, a | <p> (Heb. Maday', מָדִי, Sept. Μαδοί '','' Genesis 10:2, a [[Mede]] (See [[Mede]]) [q.v.], as elsewhere rendered), the third son of Japhet ( Genesis 10:2), from whom the Medes, etc., are supposed to have descended. [[B.C.]] post 2514. (See [[Ethnology]]). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6081" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6081" /> == | ||
