דִּין
dîyn · deen
a straight course, i.e. sail direct
Lexicon
Derivation: or (Genesis 6:3) דּוּן; a primitive root;
a straight course, i.e. sail direct
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (come) with a straight course.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the hand that works › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in of the hand that works of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דִּין above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 17 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall judge4 · 17%
- he shall judge3 · 13%
- strive1 · 4%
- will i judge1 · 4%
- hath judged1 · 4%
- were at strife1 · 4%
- for by them judgeth1 · 4%
- he shall minister judgment1 · 4%
- that he may judge1 · 4%
- and judge1 · 4%
- will judge1 · 4%
- and plead1 · 4%
- he contend1 · 4%
- to judge1 · 4%
- they judge1 · 4%
- execute1 · 4%
- he judged1 · 4%
- there is none to plead1 · 4%
- then thou shalt also judge1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.