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Strong's #4066: madown (pronounced maw-dohn')

from 1777; a contest or quarrel:--brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare 4079, 4090.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâdôn

1) strife, contention

1a) strife, contention

1b) object of contention

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1777



Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

Psalms 80:6: "Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors: and our enemies laugh"
Proverbs 6:14: "mischief continually; he soweth discord."
Proverbs 15:18: "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife."
Proverbs 16:28: "A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends."
Proverbs 17:14: "The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."
Proverbs 22:10: "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease."
Proverbs 26:20: "goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth."
Proverbs 28:25: "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat."
Proverbs 29:22: "An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression."
Jeremiah 15:10: "me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury,"
Habakkuk 1:3: "me: and there are that raise up strife and contention."









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