H4079: מִדְיָן
midyân · pronounced mid-yawn' · “contention”
Definition
{a contest or quarrel}
KJV translates it as: brawling, contention(-ous).
Word origin: a variation for H4066 (מָדוֹן)
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4079 is translated
- contentions ×9
- the contentions of ×1
Bible verses with H4079 (midyân)
Midyân appears in 10 verses.
- Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
- Proverbs 18:18
The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
- 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.
- Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- 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?
- Proverbs 25:24
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
- Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- Proverbs 27:15
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.