Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4080
מִדְיָן
Midyanmid-yawn'
Midian
59 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 H4080is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4080
Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
The King James renders it: Midian, Midianite.
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 "Midian". It stands 59 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Thirty-one of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 25:2and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:2מִדְיָ֑ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Midian51
- and Midian2
- in Midian2
- against Midian1
- from Midian1
- like Midian1
- on Midian1
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 |
| מִדְיָן | midyan | contention | Uses10 |
| 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.
The words it stands beside
All 59, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- מִדְיָ֖ן10
- מִדְיָֽן׃9
- מִדְיָן֙8
- מִדְיָ֑ן6
- מִדְיָ֗ן6
- מִדְיָ֔ן6
- מִדְיָ֜ן3
- מִדְיָ֧ן2
- בְּמִדְיָ֔ן1
- בְּמִדְיָ֖ן1
- בְּמִדְיָ֑ן1
- בְּמִדְיָֽן׃1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)48HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)6HR/Npl
- proper noun (a name)3HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Genesis
three uses
and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Exodus
five uses
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”
- בְּמִדְיָ֔ןbemidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Midian
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Numbers
ten uses
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
- בְּמִדְיָ֖ןbemidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Midian
For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
- בְּמִדְיָֽן׃bemidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: on Midian
Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
- מִדְיָ֜ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Joshua
one use
all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Judges
thirty-one uses
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
- מִדְיָ֜ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
- מִדְיָ֧ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
- מִדְיָ֧ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- וּמִדְיָ֨ןumidyanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Midian
And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.
- מִדְיָ֜ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
- מִדְיָ֑ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
- בְּמִדְיָ֑ןbemidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: against Midian
God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
- מִדְיָ֔ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
1 Kings
one use
Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.
- מִמִּדְיָ֔ןmimidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Midian
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
- וּמִדְיָ֖ןumidyanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Midian
The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah’s sons.
- מִדְיָ֗ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Psalms
one use
Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
- כְּמִדְיָ֑ןkemidyanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Midian
Isaiah
three uses
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- מִדְיָֽן׃midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.
- מִדְיָ֖ןmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
- מִדְיָן֙midyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
Habakkuk
one use
I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.
- מִדְיָֽן׃ סmidyanproper noun (a name)tagged: Midian
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
