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Madai ( Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??d?? ) is a son of Japheth
Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
 and one of the 16 grandsons of Noah
Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
 in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
. Biblical scholars have identified Madai with various nations, from the Mitanni
Mitanni

Mitanni or Hanigalbat was a loosely organized Hurrian-speaking Hittite vassal state in northern Syria from ca. 1500 BC-1300 BC."The Assyrians called the lands of Mitanni Hanigalbat while to the Hittites it was the land of the Hurrians....
 of early records, to the Medes
Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
 of much later records. The Medes, reckoned to be his offspring by Josephus and most subsequent writers, were also known as Madai, including in both Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
n and Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 sources.






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Madai ( Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??d?? ) is a son of Japheth
Japheth

Japheth is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. In Arabic language citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth ibn Nuh ....
 and one of the 16 grandsons of Noah
Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
 in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
. Biblical scholars have identified Madai with various nations, from the Mitanni
Mitanni

Mitanni or Hanigalbat was a loosely organized Hurrian-speaking Hittite vassal state in northern Syria from ca. 1500 BC-1300 BC."The Assyrians called the lands of Mitanni Hanigalbat while to the Hittites it was the land of the Hurrians....
 of early records, to the Medes
Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
 of much later records. The Medes, reckoned to be his offspring by Josephus and most subsequent writers, were also known as Madai, including in both Assyria
Assyria

Assyria was a political state centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history....
n and Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 sources. The Kurds still maintain traditions of descent from Madai, as well as the Medes.

According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem
Shem

Shem was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son....
, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell in Japheth's allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea; so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam
Elam (Hebrew Bible)

Elam in the Hebrew Bible is said to be the oldest son of Shem, the son of Noah. It is also used , for the country of Elam in what is now southern Iran, that the Hebrews believed to be the offspring of Elam, son of Shem....
, Asshur
Ashur

Ashur , was the second son of Shem, the son of Noah. Ashur's brothers were Elam, Aram, Arpachshad and Lud son of Shem.The Hebrew language text of is somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was Ashur himself , or Nimrod who built the cities of Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah in Assyria, since the name Ashur can refer to either the pe...
 and Arphaxad
Arpachshad

Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah . His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud son of Shem and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham....
, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.

The Medes are thought by scholars to have been Indo-Aryan
Indo-Aryans

Indo-Aryan is an ethno-linguistic term referring to the wide collection of peoples united as native speakers of the Indo-Iranian languages of the family of Indo-European languages....
 peoples, while the Mitanni were an aristocracy from the Araxes region who moved to Syria in the bronze age and superimposed themselves upon the Hurrians
Hurrians

The Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC....
 there, adopting their language. In the oldest writings of the Zoroastrian religion of the Medes, the earliest homeland of the Aryan race had been a legendary place called "Airyanem Vaejah
Airyanem Vaejah

Airyan?m Vaejah, which approximately means "expanse of the Aryans," is a reference in the Zoroastrian Avesta to one of Ahura Mazda "sixteen perfect lands." It is considered the best of places, but on the other hand the Vendidad/Videvdad 1 claims that there are two months of summer there and ten of winter....
" — traditionally (eg., in the Bundahishn
Bundahishn

Bundahishn, meaning "Primal Creation", is the name traditionally given to an encyclop?diaic collections of Zoroastrianism cosmogony and cosmology written in Book Pahlavi....
 29:12) associated with Arran
Arran (Azerbaijan)

Arran , also known as Aran, Ardhan , Al-Ran , Aghvank and Alvank , Ran-i or Caucasian Albania , was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify the territory which lies within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of Kura a...
 and the valley of the Araxes river, which rises next to Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in east Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Igdir Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, west of the Iranian and south of the Armenian border....
.

Another line in Jubilees (8:5) states that a daughter of Madai named Milcah
Milcah

Milcah is the name of two women in the Hebrew Bible:*Milcah daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor in Genesis, and*Milcah daughters of Zelophehad in Book of Numbers and Book of Joshua....
 married Cainan
Cainan

Cainan can refer to either:*A variant of the name Kenan in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah;...
, who is an ancestor of Abraham
Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
 also mentioned in older versions of Genesis.

Madai is also the name of the deified ancestor of the Kachin
Jingpo

The Jingpo or Kachin people are an ethnic group who largely inhabit northern Burma . They also form one of the List of Chinese ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where they numbered 132,143 people in the 2000 census....
, according to the indigenous Kachin religion. The Kachin are a people of Myanmar
Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
 and neighboring areas speaking a Sino-Tibetan language.