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# מִדְיָנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4084

**Midianite** — used 8 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

Midianite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4084/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִדְיָנִי: adj.gent. Midianite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4084/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Midianite—Nu 10:29 (J); f. מִדְיָנִית Nu 25:6, 14, 15 (P); pl. מִדְיָנִים Gn 37:28 (JE) Nu 25:17; 31:2 (P), מְדָנִים Gn 37:36 (E).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Midianites (3); \[woman\] (3); Midianite (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 25:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.25.17/#tree)

צָר֖וֹר אֶת־הַמִּדְיָנִ֑ים וְהִכִּיתֶ֖ם אוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* treat.as.foes (et) the Midianites and you.will.defeat them

*JPS 1917:* 'Harass the Midianites, and smite them;

[Numbers 31:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.2/#tree)

נְקֹ֗ם נִקְמַת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מֵאֵ֖ת הַמִּדְיָנִ֑ים אַחַ֖ר תֵּאָסֵ֥ף אֶל־עַמֶּֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* avenge the.vengeance of.the.people of.Israel from with the Midianites after you.will.be.gathered to people(s) your

*JPS 1917:* 'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4084/): 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).