Strong’s H4066 · Hebrew
מָדוֹן
mâdôwn · maw-dohn'
Origin from דִּין (H1777);
Meaning a contest or quarrel
In the King James Version brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare מִדְיָן (H4079), מְדָן (H4090).
In 11 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
- Proverbs 6:14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- Proverbs 15:18A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
- Proverbs 16:28A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
- Proverbs 17:14The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
- Proverbs 22:10Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
- Proverbs 26:20Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
- Proverbs 28:25He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
- Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
- Habakkuk 1:3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.