Maadai


Maadai


1:
MAADAI (PERSON) [Heb ma˓ăday (מַעֲדַי)]. A descendant of Bani and one of the returned exiles who was required by Ezra to divorce his foreign wife (Ezra 10:34; 1 Esdr 9:34). According to Noth, the name Maadai is a short form of ma˓adyâ, whose meaning is unclear (IPN, 150). In the parallel text of 1 Esdr 9:34, the RSV lists Maadai among the descendants of Bani; however, the LXX reads momdios, and there is very limited correspondence between Ezra’s list of Bani’s descendants and that found in 1 Esdras. Maadai was a member of a family that returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:10; note that Binnui replaces Bani in Nehemiah’s list [7:15]). For further discussion, see BEDEIAH.
  Jeffrey A. Fager


Freedman, D. N. (1996, c1992). The Anchor Bible Dictionary (4:430). New York: Doubleday.



2:
MAADAI Bani’s son, who obeyed Ezra’s exhortation to divorce his pagan wife after the exile (Ezr 10:34).


Elwell, W. A., & Comfort, P. W. (2001). Tyndale Bible dictionary. Tyndale reference library (837). Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers.



3:
MAADA´I (ma-a-dī). A Jew of the family of Bani who divorced his Gentile wife after the captivity (Ezra 10:34), 456 b.c.

Unger, M. F., Harrison, R. K., Vos, H. F., Barber, C. J., & Unger, M. F. (1988). The new Unger's Bible dictionary. Revision of: Unger's Bible dictionary. 3rd ed. c1966. (Rev. and updated ed.). Chicago: Moody Press.



4:
Maadai (Heb. ma˓ăḏay) (also MOMDIUS)
An Israelite of the line of Bani required to divorce his foreign wife (Ezra 10:34); called Momdius at 1 Esdr. 9:34).

Freedman, D. N., Myers, A. C., & Beck, A. B. (2000). Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (835). Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans.