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Hebrew verb · H1777

דִּין

dindeen

to judge

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dîyn

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1777is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1777

a straight course, i.e. sail direct

The King James renders it: (come) with a straight course.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

din is rendered "to judge". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Genesis 6:3יָד֨וֹן

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-four uses are in Psalms.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • he will judge6
  • he judges2
  • to judge2
  • and plead cause of1
  • he defended1
  • he has vindicated me1
  • he vindicates1
  • it will remain1
  • judge1
  • judging1
  • let him judge1
  • pleads1

and 5 more, 24 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

דִּיdithatUses345
דִּיןdinjudgmentUses20
דִּיןdinjudgmentUses5
דִּיגdigto fishUses1
דִּיןdinto judgeUses1
דִּינַיDinayjudgeUses1
דִּישֹׁןdishonibexUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יָדִ֣ין6
  • יָדִ֥ין2
  • לָדִ֥ין2
  • דִּ֤ינוּ1
  • דָּ֣ן1
  • דָּ֛ן1
  • דָּ֥ן1
  • דָ֔נוּ1
  • דָּנַ֣נִּי1
  • וְ֝דִ֗ין1
  • יָד֨וֹן1
  • יָדִ֪ין1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular11HVqi3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HVqrmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqv2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqi2ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVqp3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp

Genesis

four uses
  • So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

    Genesis 6:3

    • יָד֨וֹןyadonverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will remain
  • But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

    Genesis 15:14

    • דָּ֣ןdanverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: judging
  • Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.

    Genesis 30:6

    • דָּנַ֣נִּיdananiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has vindicated me
  • Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

    Genesis 49:16

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge

Deuteronomy

one use
  • For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

    Deuteronomy 32:36

    • יָדִ֤יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge

1 Samuel

one use
  • Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

    1 Samuel 2:10

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge

2 Samuel

one use
  • And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

    2 Samuel 19:9

    • נָד֔וֹןnadonverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: quarrelling

Job

one use
  • For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

    Job 36:31

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he judges

Psalms

eight uses
  • The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

    Psalms 7:8

    • יָדִ֪יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him judge
  • He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.

    Psalms 9:8

    • יָדִ֥יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge
  • He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

    Psalms 50:4

    • לָדִ֥יןladinpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to judge
  • Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!

    Psalms 54:1

    • תְדִינֵֽנִי׃tedineniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will vindicate me
  • May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

    Psalms 72:2

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge
  • Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

    Psalms 96:10

    • יָדִ֥יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will judge
  • He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.

    Psalms 110:6

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he judges
  • For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

    Psalms 135:14

    • יָדִ֣יןyadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he vindicates

Proverbs

one use
  • Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

    Proverbs 31:9

    • וְ֝דִ֗יןvedinconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and plead cause of

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.

    Ecclesiastes 6:10

    • לָדִ֔יןladinpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to contend

Isaiah

one use
  • The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

    Isaiah 3:13

    • לָדִ֥יןladinpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to judge

Jeremiah

four uses
  • They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

    Jeremiah 5:28

    • דָ֔נוּdanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have pleaded
  • O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

    Jeremiah 21:12

    • דִּ֤ינוּdinuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: judge
  • He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 22:16

    • דָּ֛ןdanverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he defended
  • There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

    Jeremiah 30:13

    • דָּ֥ןdanverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: pleads

Zechariah

one use
  • “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.

    Zechariah 3:7

    • תָּדִ֣יןtadinverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will govern

The letters

Gematria 64· 714 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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