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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4090

מְדָן

medanmed-awn'

strife

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mᵉdân

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4090is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4090

{a contest or quarrel}

The King James renders it: discord, strife.

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

medan is rendered "strife". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

Proverbs 6:19מְ֝דָנִ֗ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Proverbs.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

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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.

מְדָנִיMedaniMidianiteUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • מְ֝דָנִ֗ים1
  • מְדָנִ֑ים1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa

Proverbs

two uses
  • a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.

    Proverbs 6:19

    • מְ֝דָנִ֗יםmedanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions
  • Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

    Proverbs 10:12

    • מְדָנִ֑יםmedanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: contentions

The letters

Gematria 94· 744 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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