דִּין
dîyn · deen
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
Lexicon
Derivation: or (Job 19:29) דּוּן; from H1777 (דִּין);
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
- judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal)
- by implication, also strife
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cause, judgement, plea, strife.
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
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the cause3 · 15%
- there is a judgment2 · 10%
- the judgment2 · 10%
- between plea1 · 5%
- and plea1 · 5%
- and judgment1 · 5%
- him, yet judgment1 · 5%
- judgment1 · 5%
- and my cause1 · 5%
- thou didst cause judgment1 · 5%
- of judgment1 · 5%
- yea, strife1 · 5%
- in the cause1 · 5%
- from judgment1 · 5%
- not the cause1 · 5%
- thy cause1 · 5%
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.