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# דִּין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1779

**judgment** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

judgment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1779/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דִּין²: judgment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1779/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] judgment—Dt 17:8 + 16 times; sf. דִּינִי ψ 9:5, דִּינֵךְ Je 30:13;— כסא דין throne of judgment Pr 20:8; משׁמים השׁמעת דין from heaven thou didst cause judgment to be heard ψ 76:9. cause, plea, בין דין לדין between plea and plea Dt 17:8; דין דין plead a cause Je 5:28; 22:16; 30:13; עשׂה דין maintain the cause ψ 9:5; 140:13; ידע דין consider the cause Pr 29:7; דין לפניו the cause is before him Jb 35:14; שׂנה דין change the cause Pr 31:5; לְהַטּוֹת מִדִּין דַּלִּים Is 10:2; דין יתום Je 5:28; דין כל בני חֲלוֹף Pr 31:8. judgment, condemnation, דין רשׁע judgment of the wicked Jb 36:17; דין ומשׁפט judgment and justice v 17. strife, דין וקלון Pr 22:10 (legal strife, law-suit Str). government, דת ודין law and government Est 1:13. —לְמַעַן תֵּדְעוּן שַׁדּיּ֯ן Jb 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) 𝔊 reads ὕλη or ἴσχυς (i.e. שַׁדַּי (cf. 29:5 𝔊)? 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).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] cause (5); judgment (5); dispute (3).

## In the verses

[Job 36:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.17/#tree)

וְדִין־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃

*Word for word:* and judgment of.\[the\].wicked you.are.full judgment and justice they.take.hold.of.\[you\]

*JPS 1917:* And thou art full of the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold on them.

[Psalms 76:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.9/#tree)

מִ֭שָּׁמַיִם הִשְׁמַ֣עְתָּ דִּ֑ין אֶ֖רֶץ יָֽרְאָ֣ה וְשָׁקָֽטָה׃

*Word for word:* from heaven you.proclaimed judgment \[the\].earth it.was.afraid and it.was.quiet

*JPS 1917:* Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1779.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1779/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).