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# מָדוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4066

**strife** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strife [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4066/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָדוֹן: n.m. strife, contention [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4066/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Pr 22:10 strife, contention—ψ 80:7 + 9 times; pl. מִדְיָנִים Pr 18:18, מִדְ֯וָנִים Pr 18:19 + 7 times; contracted into מְדָנִים Pr 6:19; 10:12, מִדֳ֯נִים Pr 6:14; cstr. מִדְיְנֵי Pr 19:13. strife, contention, alm. wholly Pr:—Pr 18:19; 23:29; 26:20; also 17:14 (‖ רִיב), 22:10 (‖ דִּין וְקָלוֹן); מ׳ יִשָּׂא Hb 1:3 contention ariseth (‖ ריב); שׁלּח מ׳ let loose strife Pr 6:14, 19; 16:28; יְגָרֶה מ׳ he stirreth up strife 15:18; 28:25; 29:22; note especially אִישׁ מִדְוָ֯נִים 26:21 = a contentious, quarrelsome man; oftener אֵשֶׁת מ׳ = a contentious woman 21:9; 25:24; 27:15, cf. אֵשֶׁת מ׳ וָכָ֑עַס 21:19. object of contention ψ 80:7, cf. אִישׁ מָדוֹן Je 15:10 (‖ אִישׁ רִיב).—On מָדוֹן 2 S 21:20 Qr, v. i. מִדָּה sub מדד.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: strife (6); a contention (1); contention (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 16:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.28/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֭הְפֻּכוֹת יְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָד֑וֹן וְ֝נִרְגָּ֗ןמַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.perversiti(es) he.sends.out strife and a.slanderer \[is\].separating a.close.friend

*JPS 1917:* A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.

[Proverbs 15:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.18/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ חֵ֭מָה יְגָרֶ֣ה מָד֑וֹן וְאֶ֥רֶךאַ֝פַּ֗יִם יַשְׁקִ֥יט רִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* a.person of.rage he.stirs.up strife and a.\[person\].long of.anger(s) he.makes.quiet a.dispute

*JPS 1917:* A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4066.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4066/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).