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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33

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Strong's #4080 - מִדְיָן

Transliteration

Midyân

Phonetics

mid-yawn'

Origin

the same as (H4079)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Midian or Midianite = "strife"
n pr m
1. son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians
2. the tribe descended from Midian
n pr loc
1. the territory of the tribe descended from Midian; located principally in the desert north of the Arabian peninsula; land to which Moses went when he fled from Pharaoh

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

BSB (58)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

CSB (58)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

ESV (58)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

KJV (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

LEB (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

LSB (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

N95 (58)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

NAS (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (59)

Genesis 3

Exodus 5

Numbers 10

Joshua 1

Judges 31

1 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 3

Psalms 1

Isaiah 3

Habakkuk 1

ASV (59)

against midian 1

and midian 2

and the midianites 1

in midian 2

midian 6

of midian 35

on midian 1

out of midian 1

so midian 1

that the midianites 1

that they may go against midian 1

the midianites 4

then all the midianites 1

thou unto them as unto midian 1

with midian 1

BSB (58)

against midian 1

all the midianites 1

and midian 1

as you did to midian 1

from midian 1

in midian 1

in this way midian 1

into the midianite 1

midian 10

now the midianites 1

of a midianite 1

of midian 26

of the midianite 1

on them 1

the midianite 1

the midianites 9

CSB (58)

midian 35

midian's 2

midianite 1

of midian 2

the midianite 5

the midianites 10

them 1

they 1

with midian 1

ESV (58)

midian 50

midianites 8

KJV (59)

midian 39

midianites 20

LEB (59)

against the midianites 1

and midian 1

as when midian 1

in midian 2

midian 41

midian ⌊as if 1

now the midianites 1

of midian 1

on midian 1

the midianites 7

the presence of the midianites 2

LSB (59)

midian 54

midianites 5

N95 (58)

midian 53

midianites 5

NAS (59)

midian 54

midianites 5

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (59)

against midian 1

and midian 1

in midian 2

midian 7

of midian 35

on midian 1

out of midian 1

so midian 1

that the midianites 1

that they may go against midian 1

the midianites 5

then all the midianites 1

to them as you did to midian 1

with midian 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מִדְיָן proper name, masculine 1. son of Abraham and Keturah Genesis 25:2,4 (J) 1 Chronicles 1:32,33.

2 an Arabian tribe Genesis 36:35 (= 1 Chronicles 1:46) Numbers 31:3 (twice in verse); Numbers 31:7,8 (twice in verse); Numbers 31:9 (P) Judges 6-9 (31t.); having a כֹּהֵן (as chieftain?) Exodus 2:16; Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:1 (E); זקנים Numbers 22:4,7 (JE), נשׂיא(יםׅ Numbers 25:18 (P) Joshua 13:21 (P), שׂרים Judges 7:25; Judges 8:3, מלכים Numbers 31:8 (twice in verse); Judges 8:5,12,26; בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן dromedaries of Midian Isaiah 60:6; יוֺם מִדְיָן day of Midian Isaiah 9:3 (the victory over Midian Judges 7-8) compare Judges 10:26; Psalm 83:10,

3אֶרֶץ מִרְיָן the land of Midian Exodus 2:15 (E) Habakkuk 3:7; מִדְיָן Exodus 4:19 (J) Numbers 25:15 (P) 1 Kings 11:18; land on Aelanitic gulf (where Arabic geographers still place town ). compare on Midian, Glaser^{Skizze ii. 447 ff.}; Hom^{Aufsätze i. (1892), 4 f}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

מִדְיָן m.

(1) strife, contention (from the root דִּין see Niphal), pl. מִדְיָנִים Proverbs 18:18, 19:13, and elsewhere in קרי, where כתיב has מִדְוָנִים. See מָדוֹן.

(2) [Midian], pr.n. of an Arabian nation, descended from Abraham (Genesis 25:2), whose territory lay from the eastern shore of the Ælanitic gulf (where the Arabian geographers place the city مَدُيَن), as far as the land of Moab, and appears to have extended to Mount Sinai, Exodus 3:1, 18:5 Num 31:1-54 -Jud. 68. In some passages the Midianites seem nearly identified with the Ishmaelites, Genesis 37:25, compare 36 Genesis 37:36; Judges 7:12, compare 8:22, 24 Judges 8:24, from whom, however, in other places, they are distinguished, Genesis 25:2, Genesis 25:4, -1218.-בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן the dromedaries of Midian, Isaiah 60:6 יוֹם מִדְיָן the day of Midian, Isaiah 9:3, i.e. the victory gained over the Midianites (compare Jud. chap.,.)-The Gentile noun is מִדְיָנִי a Midianite, Numbers 10:29 pl. ־ִים Genesis 37:28 f. ־ִית Numbers 25:15.

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List of Word Forms

בְּמִדְיָ֑ן בְּמִדְיָ֔ן בְּמִדְיָ֖ן בְּמִדְיָֽן׃ במדין במדין׃ וּמִדְיָ֖ן וּמִדְיָ֨ן ומדין כְּמִדְיָ֑ן כמדין מִדְיָ֑ן מִדְיָ֔ן מִדְיָ֖ן מִדְיָ֗ן מִדְיָ֜ן מִדְיָ֧ן מִדְיָֽן׃ מִדְיָן֙ מִמִּדְיָ֔ן מדין מדין׃ ממדין bə·miḏ·yān bemidYan bəmiḏyān kə·miḏ·yān kemidYan kəmiḏyān miḏ·yān midYan miḏyān mim·miḏ·yān mimidYan mimmiḏyān ū·miḏ·yān umidYan ūmiḏyān