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# מִדְיָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4079

**Midian** — 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

Midian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4079/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָדוֹן: n.m. strife, contention [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4079/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of contentions (5); contentions (4); \[the\] contentions (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 18:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.18/#tree)

מִ֭דְיָנִים יַשְׁבִּ֣ית הַגּוֹרָ֑ל וּבֵ֖ין עֲצוּמִ֣ים יַפְרִֽיד׃

*Word for word:* contentions it.puts.an.end.to the lot and between mighty.\[people\] it.separates

*JPS 1917:* The lot causeth strife to cease, and parteth asunder the contentious.

[Proverbs 27:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.15/#tree)

דֶּ֣לֶף ט֭וֹרֵד בְּי֣וֹם סַגְרִ֑יר וְאֵ֥שֶׁת מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים נִשְׁתָּוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.dripping continual on a.day of.persistent.rain and a.wife of.contentions she.is.like

*JPS 1917:* A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4079.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4079/): 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).