midyani · Midianite

What it means

midyani (מִדְיָנִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Midianite”.

A descendant of Midian, son of Abraham and Keturah.

How to say it

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

1. Midianite: of the people of Midian.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Midianite ×5
• Midianites ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×6

• Genesis 37:28

  Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

• Numbers 10:29

  And Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which YHWH said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do you good, for YHWH has spoken good concerning Israel.”

• Numbers 25:6

  And look, a man of the sons of Israel came and brought near to his brothers the Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the whole community of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Numbers 25:14

  The name of the man of Israel who was struck, who was struck with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, chief of a fathers’ house of the Simeonites.

• Numbers 25:15

  The name of the woman who was struck, the Midianite, was Cozbi daughter of Zur; he was head of the peoples of a fathers’ house in Midian.

• Numbers 25:17

  “Harass the Midianites and strike them,

• Numbers 31:2

  “Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”