מָדוֹן
mâdôwn · H4066 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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strife, contention, quarrel
State of opposition or hostility between two or more persons
ExamplesPsalm 80:6 You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.
Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered person stirs up strife, But the slow to anger calms a dispute.
Proverbs 16:28 A perverse person spreads strife, And a slanderer separates close friends.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- שָׁתַקto be still 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּרָהto provoke 3
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- רֵאשִׁיתbeginning, first, best 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רִיב rîyb · H7379 · dispute, quarrel, strife
- Both words denote conflict or dispute, in the sense of strife, contention and quarrel, with substantial overlap.
- מְרִיבָה mᵉrîybâh · H4808 · dispute, quarrel, strife, argument
- Both words denote dispute, quarrel, strife and argument.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Conflict002003002006
- מָדוֹן denotes strife or contention, as in Proverbs 17:14's "the beginning of strife is like letting out water," placing it among terms of conflict and quarreling.
- Large002001001037
- The source data also assigns this entry the Large domain, reflecting its alternate gloss 'stature' shared with the homographic form מָדוֹן (mâdôwn, H4067), though this entry's own sampled citations attest only the strife/contention sense.
- Names of Locations003001010
- The source data likewise assigns Names of Locations, reflecting the shared spelling with the place name Madon (Joshua 11:1, מָדוֹן (Mâdôwn, H4068)), though this entry's own sampled citations attest only the strife sense.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4066. madon I. מָדוֺן noun masculinePro 22:10 strife, contention — Psa 80:7 Psa 80:9t.;…
I. מָדוֺן noun masculinePro 22:10 strife, contention — Psa 80:7 Psa 80:9t.; plural מִדְיָנִים Pro 18:18, מִדְ֯וָנִים Pro 18:19 Pro 18:7t.; contracted into מְדָנִים Pro 6:19; Pro 10:12, מִדְ֯נִים Pro 6:14; construct מִדְיְנֵי Pro 19:13.
1 strife, contention, almost wholly Proverbs: — Pro 18:19; Pro 23:29; Pro 26:20; also Pro 17:14 (|| רִיב), Pro 22:10 (|| וְקָלוֺן דִּין); ׳מ יִשָּׂא Hab 1:3 contention ariseth (|| ריב); מ ׳שׁלּח let loose strife Pro 6:14; Pro 16:28; מ ׳יְגָרֶה he stirreth up strife Pro 15:18; Pro 28:25; Pro 29:22; note especially מִדְוָ֯נִים אִישׁ Pro 26:21 = a contentious, quarrelsome man; oftener מ ׳אֵשֶׁת = a contentious woman Pro 21:9; Pro 25:24; Pro 27:15, compare מ ׳אשׁת וָכָ֑עַם Pro 21:19.
2 object of contention Psa 80:7, compare מָדוֺן אִישׁ Jer 15:10 (|| רִיב אִישׁ). — On מָדוֺן 2Sa 21:20 Qr, see I. מִדָּה below מדד.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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