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HebrewH4084Noun

מִדְיָנִי

mid.ya.ni

7Occurrences
H4084Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Midjanite or descendant (native) of Midjan

patronymical or patrial from H4080 (מִדְיָן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone from Midian Group of mid.yan (*מִדְיָן *"Midian" H4080H) § Midianite, of Midian "strife" a member of the tribe of Midian 2) an inhabitant of the land of Midian

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

מִדְיָנִי appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
6
Genesis
1

Key Passages

Genesis 37:28BSB

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Numbers 10:29BSB

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

Numbers 25:6BSB

Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 25:14BSB

The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

Numbers 25:15BSB

And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.