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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

  1. Proverbs 18:18The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
  2. Proverbs 18:19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
  3. Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
  4. Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
  5. Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
  6. Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
  7. Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
  8. Proverbs 26:21As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
  9. 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.

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