מִדְיָנִיMidyânîy
Midianite (Numbers 10:29; Numbers 25:6; Numbers 25:14; Numbers 25:15; Genesis 37:28)
Pronunciation: mid-yaw-nee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4084
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 37:28 So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
- Numbers 10:29 One day Moses said to his brother-in-law, Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, “We are on our way to the place the Lord promised us, for he said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised wonderful blessings for Israel!”
- Numbers 25:6 Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into his tent, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as everyone was weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
- Numbers 25:14 The Israelite man killed with the Midianite woman was named Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a family from the tribe of Simeon.
- Numbers 25:15 The woman’s name was Cozbi; she was the daughter of Zur, the leader of a Midianite clan.
- Numbers 25:17 “Attack the Midianites and destroy them,
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).