מִדְיָן
midyân · H4079 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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strife, contention, quarrel
State of opposition or hostility between two or more persons
ExamplesProverbs 6:14 Who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.
Proverbs 18:18 The cast lot puts an end to quarrels, And decides between the mighty ones.
Proverbs 18:19 A brother who is offended is harder to be won than a strong city, And quarrels are like the bars of a citadel.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- שָׁבַתto cease, to rest, to put an end 1
- שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בְּרִיחַcrossbar 1
- דֶּלֶףdripping 1
- מִיwho? 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 4
- אִישׁman, person, each 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 1 word
- מַצָּה matstsâh · H4683 · unleavened bread, fighting, quarrel
- Both words denote abstract concepts of conflict or contention, centering on quarreling or strife, and overlap strongly in sense. The target term's other use as the name Midian is unrelated to this sense of conflict.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λοίδορος loídoros · G3060 · slanderer
- Greek λοίδορος emphasizes the personal character trait of being abusive/reviling in speech, while Hebrew מִדְיָן focuses on the act or state of contention/quarreling itself; both denote verbal conflict behavior.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Conflict002003002006
- מִדְיָן means contention or strife, as in Proverbs 18:19's "a brother who is offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and quarrels are like the bars of a citadel," placing it among terms of conflict.
- Names of People003001007
- The source data also assigns this entry the Names of People domain, reflecting the shared spelling with Midian, the son of Abraham and Keturah (מִדְיָן (Midyân, H4080)), though this entry's own sampled citations attest only the strife sense.
- Names of Groups003001006
- This entry carries no independent group-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for strife or contention, as in “Who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, who spreads strife” (Proverbs 6:14). The “Names of Groups” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme מִדְיָן (Midyân, H4080) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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