Strong's Lexicon: H1779 דִּין דּוּן

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H1779
Word:	דִּין דּוּן
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H1777
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	21
Transliteration:	diyn
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	deen (or (Job 19) n-m.
Meaning:	1. judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal) 2. (by implication) also strife
KJV Renderings:	cause, judgement, plea, strife.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1886

[דּוּן] noun [masculine] dubious; Qr Job 9:29 שַׁדּיּ֯ן; see דִּין noun

BDB1916

דִּין noun [masculine] judgment — Deut 17:8 + 16 t.; suffix דִּינִי Ps 9:5, דִּינֵךְ Jer 30:13 —

1. כסא דין throne of judgment Prov 20:8 משׁמים השׁמעת דין from heaven thou didst cause judgment to be heard Ps 76:9.

2. cause, plea, בין דין לדין between plea and plea Deut 17:8 דין דין plead a cause Jer 5:28; Jer 22:16; Jer 30:13 עשׂה דין maintain, the cause Ps 9:5; Ps 140:13 ידע דין consider the cause Prov 29:7 דין לפניו the cause is before him Job 35:14 שׁנה דין change the cause Prov 31:5 לְהַטּוֺת מִדִּין דַּלִּים Isa 10:2 דין יתום Jer 5:28 דין כל בני חֲלוֺף Prov 31:8.

3. judgment, condemnation, דין רשׁע judgment of the wicked Job 36:17 דין ומשׁפט judgment and justice Job 36:17.

4. strife, דין וקלון Prov 22:10 (legal strife, law-suit Str).

5. government, דת ודין law and government Esth 1:13.

Note. — לְמַעַן תֵּדְעוּן שַׁדּיּ֯ן 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 Job 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 כִּי שֻׁדָּ֑דוּ (doubtfully).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

דין (deen)

Ezra 7:25

KJV: And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

EHCC: which may judge all the people

Esther 1:13

KJV: Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

EHCC: that ace tae rd fulgment

Job 19:99

EHCC: (כתיב ye may know (there is) a judgment.

Job 35:14

KJV: Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

EHCC: judgment (is) before him ;

Job 36:17

KJV: But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.take…: or, should uphold thee

EHCC: But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the

Psalms 9:4

KJV: For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.maintained…: Heb. made my judgmentjudging right: Heb. judging in righteousness

EHCC: (5).maintained my right and my cause; |

Psalms 76:8

KJV: Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

EHCC: 9(. Thou didst cause judgment

Psalms 140:12

KJV: I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

EHCC: (13). maintain the cause of the afflicted,

Proverbs 20:8

KJV: A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

EHCC: sitteth in the throne of judgment

Proverbs 22:10

KJV: Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

EHCC: yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Proverbs 29:7

KJV: The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

EHCC: considereth the cause of the poor

Proverbs 81:5

EHCC: poner the judgment of any

Proverbs 10:2

KJV: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

EHCC: To turn aside the needy from judgment,

Jeremiah 5:28

KJV: They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

EHCC: they judge not the poe the cause of the!

Jeremiah 22:16

KJV: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

EHCC: 116 judged the cause of /

Jeremiah 80:13

EHCC: - none to plead thy cause, j

Strong's Lexicon

H1779 — דִּין דּוּן