Strong's #4080: Midyan (pronounced mid-yawn')
the same as 4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:--Midian, Midianite.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
midyân
Midian or Midianite = "strife"
1) son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians (noun proper masculine)
2) the tribe descended from Midian (noun proper masculine)
3) the territory of the tribe descended from Midian; located principally in the desert north of the Arabian peninsula; land to which Moses went when he fled from Pharaoh (noun proper locative)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Genesis 25:2: "Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah."
Genesis 25:4: "And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All"
Genesis 36:35: "of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead:"
Exodus 2:15: "from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well."
Exodus 2:16: "Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled"
Exodus 3:1: "the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock"
Exodus 4:19: "said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for"
Exodus 18:1: "When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all"
Numbers 22:4: "said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up"
Numbers 22:7: "And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came"
Numbers 25:15: "over a people, and of a chief house in Midian."
Numbers 25:18: "of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague"
Numbers 31:3: "of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD"
Numbers 31:3: "against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian."
Numbers 31:7: "And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses;"
Numbers 31:8: "And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem,"
Numbers 31:8: "and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew"
Numbers 31:9: "of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all"
Joshua 13:21: "smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,"
Judges 6:1: "and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years."
Judges 6:2: "And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites"
Judges 6:2: "against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made"
Judges 6:3: "when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east,"
Judges 6:6: "was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried"
Judges 6:7: "unto the LORD because of the Midianites,"
Judges 6:11: "by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites."
Judges 6:13: "the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites."
Judges 6:14: "Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent"
Judges 6:16: "with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man."
Judges 6:33: "Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over,"
Judges 7:1: "the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill"
Judges 7:2: "thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves"
Judges 7:7: "will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go"
Judges 7:8: "hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley."
Judges 7:12: " And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers"
Judges 7:13: "bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote"
Judges 7:14: "for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host."
Judges 7:15: "into your hand the host of Midian."
Judges 7:23: "all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites."
Judges 7:24: "saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto"
Judges 7:25: "And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew"
Judges 7:25: "at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb"
Judges 8:1: "when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply."
Judges 8:3: "into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what"
Judges 8:5: "Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian."
Judges 8:12: "the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited"
Judges 8:22: "for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian."
Judges 8:26: "and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside"
Judges 8:28: " Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no"
Judges 9:17: "far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:"
