Midyan מִדְיָן

Midyan (Hebrew מִדְיָן, Strong's H4079) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “contention”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Midyan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Proverbs

• Proverbs 6:14
  Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
• Proverbs 18:18
  The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.Casting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.
• Proverbs 18:19
  A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.
• Proverbs 19:13
  A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
• Proverbs 21:9
  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 21:19
  It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
• Proverbs 23:29
  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
• Proverbs 25:24
  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 26:21
  As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
• Proverbs 27:15
  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).