מָדוֹן
mâdôwn · maw-dohn'
a contest or quarrel
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1777 (דִּין);
a contest or quarrel
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare H4079 (מִדְיָן), H4090 (מְדָן).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the doorway, the way in › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָדוֹן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- strife4 · 22%
- than with a brawling2 · 11%
- and contention2 · 11%
- us a strife1 · 6%
- discord1 · 6%
- of strife1 · 6%
- and their contentions1 · 6%
- than with a contentious1 · 6%
- who hath contentions1 · 6%
- the strife1 · 6%
- so is a contentious1 · 6%
- and a contentious1 · 6%
- of contention1 · 6%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.