מִדְיָן
Midyân · mid-yawn'
Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H4079 (מִדְיָן);
Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants
- Midjan, a son of Abraham
- also, his country and (collectively) his descendants
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Midian, Midianite.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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 › the hand that works › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the doorway, the way in of the hand that works of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִדְיָן 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
59 occurrences · 59 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of midian29 · 49%
- of the midianites7 · 12%
- the midianites6 · 10%
- midian4 · 7%
- and midian2 · 3%
- in midian2 · 3%
- and let them go against the midianites1 · 2%
- against the midianites1 · 2%
- that the midianites1 · 2%
- then all the midianites1 · 2%
- and the midianites1 · 2%
- with the midianites1 · 2%
- thus was midian1 · 2%
- out of midian1 · 2%
- unto them as unto the midianites1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
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.