Lexical Summary din: judgment Original Word: דִּיןTransliteration: din Phonetic Spelling: (doon) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: judgment Meaning: judgement, strife Strong's Concordance cause, judgment, plea, strife From diyn; judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by impl. Also strife -- cause, judgement, plea, strife. see HEBREW diyn Brown-Driver-Briggs H1779. din [דּוּן] noun [masculine] dubious; Qr Job 9:29 שַׁדּיּ֯ן; see דִּין n. דִּין noun [masculine] judgment — Deuteronomy 17:8 16t.; suffix דִּינִי Psalm 9:5, דִּינֵךְ Jeremiah 30:13; — 1 דין כסא throne of judgment Proverbs 20:8; דין השׁמעת משׁמים from heaven thou didst cause judgment to be heard Psalm 76:9. 2 cause, plea, לדין דין בין between plea and plea Deuteronomy 17:8; דין דין plead a cause Jeremiah 5:28; 22:16; 30:13; דין עשׂה maintain, the cause Psalm 9:5; 140:13; דין ידע consider the cause Proverbs 29:7; לפניו דין the cause is before him Job 35:14; דין שׁנה change the cause Proverbs 31:5; דַּלִּים מִדִּין לְהַטּוֺת Isaiah 10:2; יתום דין Jeremiah 5:28; חֲלוֺף בני כל דין Proverbs 31:8. 3 judgment, condemnation, רשׁע דין judgment of the wicked Job 36:17; ומשׁפט דין judgment and justice 36:17. 4 strife, וקלון דין Proverbs 22:10 (legal strife, law-suit Str). 5 government, ודין דת law and government Esther 1:13. Note. — שַׁדּיּ֯ן תֵּדְעוּן לְמַעַן Job 19:29 is variously explained. (1) AV RV that ye may know there is a judgment follow Aq Symm Theod, so De Da, in interpreting שׁ relative + דִּין judgment, but שׁ is unknown to the dialect of Job and דִּין is used only in Elihu section. (2) ᵐ5 reads ὕλη, or ἴσχυς (i.e. שַׁדַּי (compare 29:5 ᵐ5) ? or שֹׁד?), & Qr שַׁדּוּן, indicating ancient uncertainty and a corrupt text. (3) Ew Di read שַׁדַּי the Almighty, which accords with usage of Job. (4) Siegf שֻׁדָּ֑דוּ כִּי (doubtfully). |