# H4066 מָדוֹן

מָדוֹן (mâdôwn), Strong’s H4066: a contest or quarrel KJV: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare H4079 (מִדְיָן), H4090 (מְדָן).. Occurs 15 times.

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*mâdôwn* — a contest or quarrel

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

Derived from [דִּין dîyn](https://besorah.bible/word/H1777) (a straight course, i.e. sail direct)

Occurs 15 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָדוֹן n.m. strife, contention
- 1 strife, contention
- 2 object of contention

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 15:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/15?v=10) — Woe 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…
- [Habakkuk 1:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/1?v=3) — Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and…
- [Psalms 80:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/80?v=7) — You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
- [Proverbs 15:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/15?v=18) — A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
- [Proverbs 17:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/17?v=14) — The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
- [Proverbs 18:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/18?v=19) — A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
- [Proverbs 21:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/21?v=19) — It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
- [Proverbs 22:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/22?v=10) — Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
- [Proverbs 23:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/23?v=29) — Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
- [Proverbs 25:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/25?v=24) — It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.