Contention
מִדְיָןStrong’s H4079midyan (mid-yan)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Midyan is the Hebrew word usually translated “contentions” and “contentions of”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.”
Meaning
- Strife, contention
How it's translated
- contentions 8
- and contentions 1
- contentions of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 10
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 18:18The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
- Proverbs 18:19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Hebrew dictionary
מִדְיָן midyan · contention
strife, contention
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “contention” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTENTION, noun
[Latin See Contend.]
- Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something, or to resist a person, claim or injury; contest; quarrel.
- Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy.“Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law” Titus 3:9“A fools lips enter into contention” Proverbs 18:6
- Strife or endeavor to excel; emulation.
- Eagerness; zeal; ardor; vehemence of endeavor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.