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Lexicon :: Strong's H4080 - miḏyān

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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.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:2 - She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:4 - The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:1 - Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1 - Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:7 - So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15 - And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7 - They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:11 - Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - And the LORD[fn] turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - And the LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:33 - Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 - Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger[fn] against him subsided when he said this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels[fn] of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:18 - They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:32 - The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:33 - The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the descendants of Keturah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:46 - Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.

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