Strong’s H4079 · Hebrew
מִדְיָן
midyân · mid-yawn'
Origin a variation for מָדוֹן (H4066)
Meaning {a contest or quarrel}
In the King James Version brawling, contention(-ous).
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- Proverbs 18:18The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
- Proverbs 18:19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
- Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
- Proverbs 26:21As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
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.