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MEDEBA - M>@ - (water of rest), a town on the eastern side of Jordan, first alluded to in kjv@Numbers:21:30) Here it seems to denote the limit of the territory of Heshbon. It next occurs in the enumeration of the country divided among the transjordanic tribes, kjv@Joshua:13:9) as giving its name to a district of level downs called "the Mishor of Medeba" or "the Mishor on Medeba." At the time of the conquest Medeba belonged to the Amorites, apparently one of the towns taken from Moab by them. In the time of Ahaz Medeba was a sanctuary of Moab. kjv@Isaiah:15:2) It has retained its name down, our own times, and lies four miles southeast of Heshbon, on it rounded but rocky hill.

MEDES, MEDIA - M>@ - (middle land). Media lay northwest of Persia proper, south and southwest of the Caspian Sea, east of Armenia and Assyria, west and northwest of the great salt desert of Iran. Its greatest length was from north to south, and in this direction it extended from the 32d to the 40th parallel, a distance of 550 miles. In width it reached front about long. 45 degrees to 53 degrees; but its average breadth was not more than from 250 to 300 miles. The division of Media commonly recognized by the Greeks and Romans was that into Media Magna and Media Atropatene. Media Atropatene corresponded nearly to the modern Azerbijan , being the tract situated between the Caspian and the mountains which run north from Zagros. Media Magna lay south and east of Atropatene. It contained great part of Kurdistan and Luristan , with all Ardelan and Arak Ajemi . It is indicative of the division that there were two Ecbatanas, respectively the capitals of the two districts. The Medes were a nation of very high antiquity; we find a notice of them in the primitive Babylonian history of Berosus, who says that the Medes conquered Babylon at a very remote period (cir. B.C. 2458), and that eight Median monarchs reigned there consecutively, over a space of 224 years. The deepest obscurity hangs, however, over the whole history of the Medes from the time of their bearing sway in Babylonia, B.C. 2458-2234, to their first appearance in the cuneiform inscriptions among the enemies of Assyria, about B.C. 880. Near the middle of the seventh century B.C. the Median kingdom was consolidated, and became formidable to its neighbors; but previous to this time it was not under the dominion of a single powerful monarch, but was ruled by a vast number of petty chieftains. Cyaxares, the third Median monarch, took Nineveh and conquered Assyria B.C. 625. The limits of the Median empire cannot be definitely fixed. From north to south it was certainly confined between the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates on the one side, the Black and Caspian Seas on the other. From east to west it had, however, a wide expansion, since it reached from the Halys at least as far as the Caspian Gates, and possible farther. It was separated from Babylonia either by the Tigris or more probably by a line running about halfway between that river and the Euphrates. Its greatest length may be reckoned at 1500 miles from northwest to southeast, and its average breadth at 400 or 450 miles. Its area would thus be about 600,000 square miles, or somewhat greater than that of modern Persia. Of all the ancient Oriental monarchies the Median was the shortest in duration. It was overthrown by the Persians under Cyrus, B.C. 558, who captured its king, Astyages. The treatment of the Medes by the victorious Persians was not that of an ordinary conquered nation. Medes were appointed to stations of high honor and importance under Cyrus and his successors. The two nations seem blended into one, and we often find reference to this kingdom as that of the "Medes and Persians." kjv@Daniel:5:28 kjv@Daniel:6:8 kjv@Daniel:6:12,15) The references to the Medes in the canonical Scriptures are not very numerous, but they are striking. We first hear of certain "cities of the Medes," in which the captive Israelites were placed by "the king of Assyria" on the destruction of Samaria, B.C. 721 ( kjv@2Kings:17:6 kjv@2Kings:18:12) Soon afterward Isaiah prophesies the part which the Medes shall take in the destruction of Babylon, kjv@Isaiah:13:17 kjv@Isaiah:21:2) which is again still more distinctly declared by Jeremiah, kjv@Jeremiah:51:11-28) who sufficiently indicates the independence of Media in his day. ch. kjv@Jeremiah:25:25) Daniel relates the fact of the Medo
- Persia conquest, kjv@Daniel:5:25 kjv@Daniel:5:31) giving an account of the reign of Darius the Mede, who appears to have been made viceroy by Cyrus. kjv@Daniel:6:1-58) In Ezra we have a mention of Achmetha (Ecbatana), "the palace in the province of the Medes," where the decree of Cyrus was found, kjv@Ezra:6:2-5)
a notice which accords with the known facts that the Median capital was the seat of government under Cyrus, but a royal residence only, and not the seat of government, under Darius Hystaspis. Finally, in Esther the high rank of Media under the Persian kings, yet at the same time its subordinate position, is marked by the frequent composition of the two names in phrases of honor, the precedence being in every ease assigned to the Persians.

easton:

Mede @ (Heb. Madai), a Median or inhabitant of Media kjv@Daniel:11:1). In kjv@Genesis:10:2 the Hebrew word occurs in the list of the sons of Japheth. But probably this is an ethnic and not a personal name, and denotes simply the Medes as descended from Japheth.

Medeba @ waters of quiet, an ancient Moabite town kjv@Numbers:21:30). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben kjv@Joshua:13:16). Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and their allies ( kjv@1Chronicles:19:7-15; comp. kjv@2Samuel:10:6-14). In the time of Isaiah (15:2) the Moabites regained possession of it from the Ammonites. (
See HANUN.) The ruins of this important city, now Madeba or Madiyabah, are seen about 8 miles south-west of Heshbon, and 14 east of the Dead Sea. Among these are the ruins of what must have been a large temple, and of three cisterns of considerable extent, which are now dry. These cisterns may have originated the name Medeba, "waters of quiet." (
See OMRI.)

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MEDEBA @
- A city of Moab kjv@Numbers:21:30
- Allotted to Reuben kjv@Joshua:13:9 kjv@Joshua:13:16
- David defeats an army and the Ammonites at kjv@1Chronicles:19:7-15

MEDES @
- Inhabitants of Media
- Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria kjv@2Kings:17:6; kjv@2Kings:18:11
- Palace in the Bablonian province of kjv@Ezra:6:2
- An essential part of the Medo
- Persian Empire kjv@Esther:1:1 kjv@Esther:1:19
- Supremacy of, in the Chaldean Empire kjv@Daniel:5:28 kjv@Daniel:5:31 kjv@Daniel:9:1; kjv@Daniel:11:1

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kjv@STRING:Medeba <HITCHCOCK>@ waters of grief; waters springing up - HITCHCOCK-M

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H4063 <STRHEB>@ מדו medev meh'-dev From an unused root meaning to stretch; properly {extent} that {is} measure; by implication a dress (as measured): - garment.

H4074 <STRHEB>@ מדי mâday maw-dah'ee Of foreign derivation; {Madai} a country of central Asia: - {Madai} {Medes} Media.

H4075 <STRHEB>@ מדי mâday maw-dah'ee Patrial from H4074; a Madian or native of Madai: - Mede.

H4076 <STRHEB>@ מדי mâday maw-dah'ee (Chaldee); corresponding to H4074: - Mede (-s).

H4311 <STRHEB>@ מידבא mêydebâ' may-deb-aw' From H4325 and H1679; water of quiet; {Medeba} a place in Palestine.

G3370 <STRGRK>@ Μῆδος Mēdos may'-dos Of foreign origin (compare [H4074]); a Median or inhabitant of Media: - Mede.