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HebrewH4080Proper Noun (Masculine)

מִדְיָן

mid.yan

53Occurrences
H4080Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants

the same as H4079 (מִדְיָן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Abraham (H0085) and Keturah (H6989); half-brother of: Ishmael (H3458) and Isaac (H3327); brother of: Zimran (H2175), Jokshan (H3370), Medan (H4091), Ishbak (H3435) and Shuah (H7744); father of: Ephah (H5891), Epher (H6081), Hanoch (H2585I), Abida (H0028) and Eldaah (H0420) § Midian or Midianite = "strife" 1) son of Abraham by Keturah and progenitor of the tribe of Midianites or Arabians 2) the tribe descended from Midian 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

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מִדְיָן appears 53 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Judges
29
Numbers
8
Exodus
5
1 Chronicles
3
Genesis
3
Isaiah
2
1 Kings
1
Habakkuk
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:32BSB

The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine:Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.The sons of Jokshan:Sheba and Dedan.

Genesis 25:4BSB

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.All these were descendants of Keturah.

Judges 6:11BSB

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 7:13BSB

And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Judges 8:22BSB

Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

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