Limitless Word
מָדוֹןmâdôwn/maw-dohn'/
HebrewH406611 occurrences (KJV)

a contest or quarrel

KJV renders it: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare H4079 (מִדְיָן), H4090 (מְדָן).

Where it appears

  • Ps 80:6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
  • Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
  • Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
  • Prov 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
  • Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
  • Prov 22:10Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
  • Prov 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
  • Prov 28:25One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
  • Prov 29:22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
  • Jer 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.
  • Hab 1:3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.