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# דַּיָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1781

**judge** — used 2 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

judge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1781/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּיָּן: n.m. judge [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1781/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. judge 1 S 24:16; cstr. דַּיַּן ψ 68:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: a judge (1); judge (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.6/#tree)

אֲבִ֣י יְ֭תוֹמִים וְדַיַּ֣ן אַלְמָנ֑וֹת אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים בִּמְע֥וֹן קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.father of.fatherless.ones and a.judge of.widows God in the.dwelling.place his.holiness his

*JPS 1917:* A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

[1 Samuel 24:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.24.16/#tree)

וְהָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לְדַיָּ֔ן וְשָׁפַ֖ט בֵּינִ֣י וּבֵינֶ֑ךָ וְיֵ֙רֶא֙ וְיָרֵ֣ב אֶת־רִיבִ֔י וְיִשְׁפְּטֵ֖נִי מִיָּדֶֽךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.will.become Yahweh (into).a judge and he.will.judge between me and between you and may.he.see and may.he.conduct (et) case my and may he.vindicate.me from hand your

*JPS 1917:* The LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1781.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1781/): 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).