מִדְיָן
midyan · strife, quarrel
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4079 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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midyan (מִדְיָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “strife, quarrel”.
Strife, a dispute (another form of the word for "strife").
How to say it
mid·yan
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
- Fighting; someone always at odds.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- quarrels ×7
- strife ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 18:18
The lot puts an end to strife, and between the mighty it decides.
- Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is harder to win than a city of strength, and strife is like the bar of a citadel.
- Proverbs 19:13
Calamities to his father is a senseless son, and a continual dripping are the quarrels of a wife.
- Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.
- Proverbs 21:19
Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a woman of quarrels and vexation.
- Proverbs 23:29
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has quarrels? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
- Proverbs 25:24
Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.
- Proverbs 26:21
Charcoal for embers and wood for fire, and a man of quarrels for kindling strife.
- Proverbs 27:15
A continual dripping on a day of downpour and a woman of quarrels are alike;