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# מִדְיָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4080

**Midian** — used 59 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/1502/4080/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִדְיָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4080/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Abraham and Keturah Gn 25:2, 4 (J) 1 Ch 1:32, 33. an Arabian tribe Gn 36:35 (= 1 Ch 1:46) Nu 31:3(×2), 7, 8(×2), 9 (P) Ju 6–9 (31 times); having a כֹּהֵן (as chieftain?) Ex 2:16; 3:1; 18:1 (E); זקנים Nu 22:4, 7 (JE), נשׂיא(ים) Nu 25:18 (P) Jos 13:21 (P), שׂרים Ju 7:25; 8:3, מלכים Nu 31:8(×2) Ju 5:5, 12, 26; בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן dromedaries of Midian Is 60:6; יוֹם מִדְיָן day of Midian Is 9:3 (the victory over Midian Ju 7–8) cf. 10:26 ψ 83:10. אֶרֶץ מִדְיָן the land of Midian Ex 2:15 (E) Hb 3:7; מִדְיָן Ex 4:19 (J) Nu 25:15 (P) 1 K 11:18; land of Ælantic gulf (where Arabic geographers still place town مدين). Cf. on Midian, GlaserSkizze ii. 447 ff.; HomAufsätze i. (1892), 4 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of Midian (33); Midian (26).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.7/#tree)

תַּ֣חַת אָ֔וֶן רָאִ֖יתִי אָהֳלֵ֣י כוּשָׁ֑ן יִרְגְּז֕וּן יְרִיע֖וֹת אֶ֥רֶץ מִדְיָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* under trouble I.have.seen the.tents of.Cushan they tremble the.tent.curtains of.the.land of.Midian

*JPS 1917:* I see the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian do tremble.

[Judges 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.7/#tree)

וַיְהִ֕י כִּֽי־זָעֲק֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֶל־יְהוָ֑ה עַ֖ל אֹד֥וֹת מִדְיָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was (dm) they.cried.out the.people of.Israel to Yahweh on the.causes of.Midian

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of Midian,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4080.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4080/): 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).