Midian
noun
(in the Bible) a son of Abraham and Keturah.
Midianitish
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a word derived from
Midian.
Example Sentences
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Other commentators say that Zimri was notorious at the licentious feasts of Baal-poer and that the Midianitish women tempted the sons of Israel to idolatry.
From The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He remembered with what difficulty he had believed the angel and the promise, the sickly faintness which had overcome him on that night before the Midianitish overthrow.
From Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers by Mark Rutherford
When Jethro, the Midianitish priest and grazier, hired an Hebrew outlaw as his herdsman, he doubtless thought little of the circumstance; but Moses still lives, and busies himself in the daily business of all nations.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
While the brethren of Joseph were deliberating upon his fate, seven Midianitish merchantmen passed near the pit in which he lay.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 by Henrietta Szold
At the same time, Midianitish supremacy did not mean the destruction of the Moabite kingdom.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
