Strong's #4079: midyan (pronounced mid-yawn')

a variation for 4066:--brawling, contention(-ous).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

midyân

1) strife, contention

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a variation for H4066

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Proverbs 18:18: "The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty."
Proverbs 18:19: "offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle."
Proverbs 19:13: "son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping."
Proverbs 21:9: "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 sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds"
Proverbs 25:24: "in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house."
Proverbs 26:21: "are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife."
Proverbs 27:15: "dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."