How many times is Midianites mentioned in the Bible?
The word Midianites appears 24 times in the King James Version, in 24 verses. Counting every form (Midianites, Midian), it appears 63 times in 59 verses across 10 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses Midianites 11 times (63 with every form).
Midianites in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of Midianites counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| Midianites | 24 | 11 |
| Midian | 39 | 52 |
| Total | 63 | 63 |
First and last mention of Midianites
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
The verse that uses it most is Numbers 31:3, 2 times (tied with Numbers 31:8, Judges 6:2, Judges 7:25):
And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
Where the two translations differ
1 verse matches in the KJV but not in the World English Bible, and 1 verse matches only in the World English Bible, usually because the other translation chose a different word there.
Judges 7:1: counted in the KJV only
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Acts 7:29: counted in the World English Bible only
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Common questions
How many times is Midianites in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 63 of the 63 uses are in the Old Testament and 0 in the New Testament. Midianites appears in 10 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Judges has the most (31), then Numbers (12) and Genesis (5).
Where is Midianites first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is Genesis 25:2: "And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah." The last is Habakkuk 3:7.
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Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-22.