מָדוֹן
madon · strife
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4066 · appears 11 times in the Bible
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madon (מָדוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strife”.
Quarrel, a cause of dispute.
How to say it
ma·don
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A confrontation between people who accuse and face off against each other.
- The target of a dispute: someone over whom others quarrel or mock.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- strife ×8
- contention ×2
- quarrels ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 80:6
You make us a contention for our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.
- Proverbs 6:14
perversities are in his heart; he plots evil at all times; he sends out quarrels.
- Proverbs 15:18
A man of wrath stirs up strife, but one who is slow to anger calms a dispute.
- Proverbs 16:28
A man of perversities spreads strife, and a grumbler separates close friends.
- Proverbs 17:14
Like releasing water is the beginning of strife; so before the dispute breaks out, leave it.
- Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the scoffer, and strife will go out; and dispute and disgrace will cease.
- Proverbs 26:20
Without wood the fire goes out, and where there is no grumbler, strife quiets down.
- Proverbs 28:25
The broad of soul stirs up strife, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be enriched.
- Proverbs 29:22
A man of anger stirs up strife, and a master of wrath is great in transgression.
- Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of dispute and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have they lent to me, yet all of them curse me.
- Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see wickedness, and you look on trouble? Devastation and violence are before me; and there is dispute, and strife rises up.