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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:

1 Kings 11:18: "And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with"
1 Chronicles 1:32: "Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan;"
1 Chronicles 1:33: "And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All"
1 Chronicles 1:46: "of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead:"
Psalms 83:9: "Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:"
Isaiah 9:4: "the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian."
Isaiah 10:26: "a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon"
Isaiah 60:6: "of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba"
Habakkuk 3:7: "affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble."









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