Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4079
מִדְיָן
midyanmid-yawn'
contention
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: midyân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4079is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4079
{a contest or quarrel}
The King James renders it: brawling, contention(-ous).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
midyan is rendered "contention". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Ten of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 6:14With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Proverbs 6:14מִדְיָנִ֥ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's ten uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- contentions8
- and contentions1
- contentions of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִדְבָּר | midbar | mouth | Uses270 |
| מִדְיָנִי | Midyani | Midianite | Uses7 |
| מִדְרָשׁ | midrash | story | Uses2 |
| מִדְחֶה | midcheh | ruin | Uses1 |
| מִדְרָךְ | midrak | treading | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים4
- וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗ים1
- מִדְיְנֵ֥י1
- מִדְיָנִ֥ים1
- מִ֭דְיָנִים1
- מִדְיָנִ֣ים1
- מִדְיָנִ֨ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural8HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
Proverbs
ten uses
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
- מִדְיָנִ֥יםmedanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.
- מִ֭דְיָנִיםmidyanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
- וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗יםumedonimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and contentions
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
- מִדְיְנֵ֥יmidyeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: contentions of
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- מִ֝דְיָנִ֗יםmidyanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- מִדְיָנִ֣יםmedonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- מִדְיָנִ֨יםmidonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- מִ֝דְיָנִ֗יםmidonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
- מִ֝דְיָנִ֗יםmidonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
- מִ֝דְיָנִ֗יםmidonimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
The letters
Gematria 104· 754 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.