Bible Dictionary: Median

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

2. (a.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.

3. (n.) A median line or point.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MEDIAN

me'-di-an.

See DARIUS; MEDES; MEDIA.

Greek

3370. Medos -- a Mede, Median, an inhabitant of Media
... a Mede, Median, an inhabitant of Media. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
Medos Phonetic Spelling: (may'-dos) Short Definition: a Mede Definition ...
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3097. magos -- a Magian, ie an (Oriental) astrologer, by impl. a ...
... 3097 (plural, ) -- properly, belonging to "the Magoi, a Median tribe (so Herodotus);
a Magian, one of a sacred caste, originally Median, who seem to have ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4077. Maday -- an inhabitant of Media
... of Media NASB Word Usage Mede (1). Median. (Aramaic) corresponding to Maday -- Median.
see HEBREW Maday. 4076, 4077. Maday. 4078 . Strong's Numbers.
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4074. Maday -- a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
... Word Origin of foreign origin Definition a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their
land NASB Word Usage Madai (2), Medes (5), Media (8), Median (1). ...
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Library

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... THE MEDIAN WAR"THE LAST NATIVE DYNASTIES OF EGYPT"THE EASTERN WORLD ON
THE EVE OP THE MACEDONIAN CONQUEST. The Persians in 512 ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of.htm

Accession of Cyrus to the Throne.
... of the realm of Media, and he endeavored to stimulate his rising ambition to the
desire of one day possessing for himself both the Median and Persian throne. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter v accession of cyrus.htm

History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 9
... The constitution of the Median empire borrowed from the ancient peoples of the
Euphrates: its religion only is peculiar to itself -- Legends concerning ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 9/title page.htm

Appendix I.
... Cyaxares (624-585), the son of Phraortes, soon after his succession to his
father"say between 624 and 620"led a second Median assault upon Assyria and ...
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Babylon.
... He joined himself to the Medea, giving his son, Nebuchadnezzar, in marriage to the
Median Princess Amytis; and as has already been said, the two nations ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xi babylon.htm

Change not Always Improvement.
... He had conquered the Median race, and was conquered by Median garb. Doffing the
triumphal mail, he degraded himself into the captive trousers! ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter iv change not always improvement.htm

Cyrus, the Servant Of-The Lord {4}
... with the Turanian, or Finnish tribes; and adopted much of their creed, as well as
of their morals, throughout their vast but short- lived Median Empire. ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/cyrus the servant of-the lord.htm

The Servant of the Lord.
... with the Turanian, or Finnish tribes; and adopted much of their creed, as well as
of their morals, throughout their vast but short-lived Median Empire. ...
/.../kingsley/lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture iv the servant of.htm

Cyrus.
... Cyrus was the son of a Persian king and Median princess, and had been so well brought
up at home, that when as a little boy he visited his grandfather at ...
//christianbookshelf.org/yonge/the chosen people/lesson xii cyrus.htm

The visit to Media.
... introduced when he arrived in Media, and with the gayeties and luxuries, the pomp
and display, and the spectacles and parades in which the Median court abounded ...
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Thesaurus

Median (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle;
as, a median groove. ... 3. (n.) A median line or point. Int. ...
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Medes (15 Occurrences)
... Esar-haddon in his 2nd year (679-678 BC) and Assurbani-pal warred with certain
Median tribes, whose power was now growing formidable. ...
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Magi (4 Occurrences)
... 16, "Wise-men," the Revised Version (British and American) and the King James Version,
"Magi" the Revised Version margin)): 1. Originally a Median Tribe: Were ...
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Cyrus (20 Occurrences)
... In that which he quotes (i.107), it is said that Mandane was the daughter of the
Median king Astyages, who, in consequence of a dream which he had had ...
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Media (14 Occurrences)
... informs us (6:2-5), was found in "the palace that is in the province of the Medes,"
Achmetha or Ecbatana of the Greeks, which is the only Median city mentioned ...
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Armenia (2 Occurrences)
... Xenophon in the Cyropedia mentions a Median conquest of Armenia, Strabo their Median
attire; yet Armenian girls could not understand Xenophon's Persian ...
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Achmetha (1 Occurrence)
... of northern Media. Here was the palace which was the residence of the old
Median monarchs, and of Cyrus and Cambyses. In the time ...
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Ahasbai (1 Occurrence)
... That this Median king had sons living in the time of Cyrus is shown by the fact
that two rebel aspirants to the throne in the time of Darius Hystaspis claimed ...
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Persian (4 Occurrences)
... The former is known to us from the inscriptions of the Achemenian kings, the latter
from the Avesta, and a few Median words preserved for us by Herodotus and ...
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Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)
... the Babylonian kings. He married the daughter of Cyaxares, and thus the
Median and Babylonian dynasties were united. Necho II., the ...
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Bible Concordance

Median (3 Occurrences)

Esther 1:18 And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say the like unto all the king's princes. So will there arise enough contempt and wrath.
(See NIV)

Daniel 5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
(KJV WBS)

Daniel 9:1 In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Median

Related Terms

Medes (15 Occurrences)

Magi (4 Occurrences)

Cyrus (20 Occurrences)

Media (14 Occurrences)

Armenia (2 Occurrences)

Achmetha (1 Occurrence)

Ahasbai (1 Occurrence)

Persian (4 Occurrences)

Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)