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Lexicon :: Strong's H4080 - miḏyān

Aa
מִדְיָן
Transliteration
miḏyān
Pronunciation
mid-yawn'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

מִדְיָן Midyân, mid-yawn'; the same as H4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:—Midian, Midianite.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x

The KJV translates Strong's H4080 in the following manner: Midian (39x), Midianite (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 59x
The KJV translates Strong's H4080 in the following manner: Midian (39x), Midianite (20x).

  1. Midian or Midianite = "strife"

    proper masculine noun

    1. son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians

    2. the tribe descended from Midian

      proper locative noun

    3. the territory of the tribe descended from Midian; located principally in the desert north of the Arabian peninsula; land to which Moses went when he fled from Pharaoh

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִדְיָן Midyân, mid-yawn'; the same as H4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:—Midian, Midianite.
STRONGS H4080: Abbreviations
מִדְיָן proper name, masculine
1. son of Abraham and Keturah Genesis 25:2, 4 (J) 1 Chronicles 1:32, 33.
2. an Arabian tribe Genesis 36:35 (= 1 Chronicles 1:46) Numbers 31:3 (twice in verse); Numbers 31:7, 8 (twice in verse); Numbers 31:9 (P) Judges 6-9 (31 times); having a כֹּהֵן (as chieftain?) Exodus 2:16; Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:1 (E); זקנים Numbers 22:4, 7 (JE), נשׂיא(יםׅ Numbers 25:18 (P) Joshua 13:21 (P), שׂרים Judges 7:25; Judges 8:3, מלכים Numbers 31:8 (twice in verse); Judges 8:5, 12, 26; בִּכְרֵי מִדְיָן dromedaries of Midian Isaiah 60:6; יוֺם מִדְיָן day of Midian Isaiah 9:3 (the victory over Midian Judges 7-8) compare Judges 10:26; Psalm 83:10,
3. אֶרֶץ מִרְיָן the land of Midian Exodus 2:15 (E) Habakkuk 3:7; מִדְיָן Exodus 4:19 (J) Numbers 25:15 (P) 1 Kings 11:18; land on Aelanitic gulf (where Arabic geographers still place town bdb019301). compare on Midian, GlaserSkizze ii. 447 ff.; HomAufsätze i. (1892), 4f.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:2; 25:4; 36:35

Exodus

2:15; 2:16; 3:1; 4:19; 18:1

Numbers

22:4; 22:7; 25:15; 25:18; 31:3; 31:7; 31:8; 31:8; 31:9

Joshua

13:21

Judges

7:25; 8:3; 8:5; 8:12; 8:26

1 Kings

11:18

1 Chronicles

1:32; 1:33; 1:46

Psalms

83:10

Isaiah

9:3; 60:6

Habakkuk

3:7

H4080

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Strong's Number H4080 matches the Hebrew מִדְיָן (miḏyān),
which occurs 59 times in 55 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 25:2–1Ch 1:46)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:2 - She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:4 - And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1 - Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 - So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15 - And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7 - And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 - Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - (For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:32 - And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:33 - And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46 - And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith.

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