Word

מִדְיָן

Midyân · H4080 · Hebrew · proper noun · 59 occurrences

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Place

Midianfirst named in Genesis 36:3544 verses

Person

Midianfirst named in Genesis 25:238 verses

Meanings

Midian

A man, son of Keturah, wife of Abraham, regarded as the ancestor of an ethnic group with the same name

Examples
Genesis 25:2 She bore to him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were the sons of Keturah.
1 Chronicles 1:32 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, to whom she gave birth, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.
Midian

Ethnic group; regarded as descendants of one of the sons of Keturah, wife of Abraham

Examples
Genesis 36:35 Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab, became king in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.
Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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

4 occurrences in 4 groups

כָּנַעto humble oneself 1
נָפַלto fall 1
עָלָהto go up 1
אָסַףto gather, to assemble 1

What is done to itIt is the object

9 occurrences in 4 groups

נָכָהto strike, to strike down 3
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 3
יָלַדto bear 2
קָרָאto meet, to happen 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 6 groups

בin/on/with 7
עַלon, upon, over, against 4
אַחַרafter, behind 2
אֵלto, toward 2
מִןfrom 2
כlike/as 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

36 occurrences in 16 groups

מֶלֶךְking 5
יָדhand, power 4
מַחֲנֶהcamp, army 4
כֹּהֵןpriest 3
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (17) 17

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.

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.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Conflict002003002006: This entry carries no independent "Conflict" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. Genesis 25:2, Exodus 2:15, 3:1) names Midian, the person, land, or people descended from Abraham through Keturah, not strife as such. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled common noun for strife (מִדְיָן (midyân, H4079)).
Names of People003001007: Midian names a son of Abraham and Keturah, as in Genesis 25:2, placing it among personal names.
Names of Groups003001006: The same name also designates the Midianite people descended from him, prominent throughout the narratives of Moses and Gideon (e.g. Exodus 2:15, Judges 6:1), placing it among named peoples.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4080. Midyan מִדְיָן proper name, masculine 1. son of Abraham and Keturah Gen 25:2, Gen…

H4080. Midyan
מִדְיָן proper name, masculine 1. son of Abraham and Keturah Gen 25:2, Gen 25:4 (J) 1Ch 1:32-33,.
2 an Arabian tribe Gen 36:35 (= 1Ch 1:46) Num 31:3 (twice in verse); Num 31:7-8, (twice in verse); Num 31:9 (P) Judges 6-9 (31 t.); having a כֹּהֵן (as chieftain?) Exo 2:16; Exo 3:1; Exo 18:1 (E); זקנים Num 22:4, Num 22:7 (JE), נשׂיא(יםׅ Num 25:18 (P) Jos 13:21 (P), שׂרים Jdg 7:25; Jdg 8:3, מלכים Num 31:8 (twice in verse); Jdg 8:5, Jdg 8:12, Jdg 8:26; מִדְיָן בִּכְרֵי dromedaries of Midian Isa 60:6; מִדְיָן יוֺם day of Midian Isa 9:3 (the victory over Midian Judges 7-8) compare Judges 10:26; Psa 83:10,
3 מִרְיָן אֶרֶץ the land of Midian Exo 2:15 (E) Hab 3:7; מִדְיָן Exo 4:19 (J) Num 25:15 (P) 1Ki 11:18; land on Aelanitic gulf (where Arabic geographers still place town ). compare on Midian, GlaserSkizze ii. 447 ff.; HomAufsätze i. (1892), 4f.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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