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•MADAI middle land, the third “son” of Japheth (Genesis 10:2), the name by which the Medes are known on the Assyrian monuments.
•MADMANNAH dunghill, the modern el-Minyay, 15 miles south-south-west of Gaza (Joshua 15:31; 1 Chronicles 2:49), in the south of Judah. The Pal. Mem., however, suggest Umm Deimneh, 12 miles north-east of Beersheba, as the site.
•MADMEN ibid., a Moabite town threatened with the sword of the Babylonians (Jeremiah 48:2).