מִדְיָן

Genesis 25:2 מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:4 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

Genesis 36:35 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

Exodus 2:15 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

Here: A semi-nomadic people and region usually placed east of the Gulf of Aqaba in northwest Arabia, with reach into the Sinai and Negev. Genesis 25:2 makes them distant kin of Israel through Abraham and Keturah.

Exodus 2:16 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 3:1 מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Here: A semi-nomadic people and their territory, usually placed east of the Gulf of Aqaba in north-west Arabia. Genesis 25:2 traces them to Abraham through Keturah, so they are distant kin of Israel.

Exodus 4:19 בְּמִדְיָ֔ן in Midian

Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”

Exodus 18:1 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Here: A people and region, usually placed in northwest Arabia east of the Gulf of Aqaba, with groups ranging into Sinai and the Negev. In Genesis 25:2 Midian descends from Abraham through Keturah, so to Israel they are distant kin, not total strangers.

Numbers 22:4 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,

Numbers 22:7 מִדְיָ֔ן Midian

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.

Numbers 25:15 בְּמִדְיָ֖ן in Midian

And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

Numbers 25:18 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

Numbers 31:3 מִדְיָ֔ן בְּמִדְיָֽן׃ Midian, on Midian

So Moses told the people, “Arm some of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.

Numbers 31:7 מִדְיָ֔ן Midian

Then they waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

Numbers 31:8 מִדְיָ֜ן מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

Here: Midian, a group of related clans in Transjordan and northwest Arabia. Here it means the Midianite groups allied with Moab in the Balaam and Peor stories (Num 22:4, 7; 25:6–18).

Numbers 31:9 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

Joshua 13:21 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

Judges 6:1 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

Here: A people of the desert fringe from north-west Arabia, east of the Gulf of Aqaba. The name stands for the people as a whole. Verses 6:3–5 add their partners, the Amalekites and the "people of the East."

Judges 6:2 מִדְיָ֖ן מִדְיָ֜ן Midian

and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

Judges 6:3 מִדְיָ֧ן Midian

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

Here: A group of tribes from the desert east and south-east, in north-west Arabia and the edges of Transjordan. They lead the raiders and are treated as one body ('Midian', singular).

Judges 6:6 מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

Judges 6:7 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

Judges 6:11 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Here: The nation is named as a single body. These were camel-riding raiders from the east who had stripped Israel's harvests for seven years (6:1–6).

Judges 6:13 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Here: The camel-riding raiders from the desert east and south of Israel, whose yearly raids had starved the land for seven years (6:1–6).

Judges 6:14 מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

Here: The camel-riding raiders from the desert east and south of Israel who, with Amalekites and 'people of the east', had been stripping Israel's harvests for seven years (6:1–6).

Judges 6:16 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”

Judges 6:33 מִדְיָ֧ן Midian

Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

Judges 7:1 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

Judges 7:2 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Here: The camel-riding raiders who had stripped Israel's harvests for seven years (6:1–6). The name stands for the whole enemy host, 'like locusts in number' (7:12).

Judges 7:7 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”

Here: The name of the people, standing for their whole raiding army in the valley (6:33; 7:8, 12). That army was joined by Amalek and "the people of the east".

Judges 7:8 מִדְיָ֔ן Midian

So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Judges 7:12 וּמִדְיָ֨ן and Midian

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Here: The leading nation of the raiding alliance. Midian was a group of tribes from the desert south-east of Israel, which Genesis traces back to Abraham through Keturah (Gen 25:2). It is the oppressor of the whole Gideon cycle (Judg 6–8).

Judges 7:13 מִדְיָ֔ן Midian

And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

Judges 7:14 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

Judges 7:15 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

Judges 7:23 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.

Judges 7:24 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.

Judges 7:25 מִדְיָ֜ן מִדְיָ֑ן Midian

They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.

Judges 8:1 בְּמִדְיָ֑ן against Midian

Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

Judges 8:3 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

Judges 8:5 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 8:12 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.

Judges 8:22 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

Judges 8:26 מִדְיָ֔ן Midian

The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.

Judges 8:28 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

Judges 9:17 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

1 Kings 11:18 מִמִּדְיָ֔ן from Midian

Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.

1 Chronicles 1:32 וּמִדְיָ֖ן and Midian

The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1:33 מִדְיָ֗ן Midian

The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All of these were Keturah’s sons.

1 Chronicles 1:46 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.

Psalm 83:9 כְּמִדְיָ֑ן like Midian

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

Isaiah 9:4 מִדְיָֽן׃ Midian

For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

Here: Gideon's rout of the Midianites (Judges 6–8). God won it with 300 men, lamps and horns, while the enemy turned on itself, and it was fought in the same northern lands this oracle addresses.

Isaiah 10:26 מִדְיָ֖ן Midian

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

Here: The desert people who raided Israel in the days of the judges and were routed by Gideon (Judges 6–8).

Isaiah 60:6 מִדְיָן֙ Midian

Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

Here: Tribal peoples of northwest Arabia, east of the Gulf of Aqaba. In Israel's memory they were camel-riding caravan traders and raiders (Genesis 37:28; Judges 6:5).

Habakkuk 3:7 מִדְיָֽן׃ ס Midian

I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.