מִדְיָןmidyân

strife, contention

Pronunciation: mid-yawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4079

Meanings

1. strife, contention (Proverbs 18:19; Proverbs 23:29; Proverbs 26:20)

2. object of contention (Psalms 80:7; Jeremiah 15:10; 2 Samuel 21:20)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

Proverbs 6:14 Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.
Proverbs 18:18 Flipping a coin can end arguments; it settles disputes between powerful opponents.
Proverbs 18:19 An offended friend is harder to win back than a fortified city. Arguments separate friends like a gate locked with bars.
Proverbs 19:13 A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.
Proverbs 21:9 It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
Proverbs 21:19 It’s better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

See every passage

Proverbs 6:14, 18:18, 18:19, 19:13, 21:9, 21:19, 23:29, 25:24, 26:21, 27:15

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).