Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1781
דַּיָּן
dayandah-yawn'
judge
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dayân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1781is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1781
a judge or advocate
The King James renders it: judge.
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
dayan is rendered "judge". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 24:15May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
1 Samuel 24:15לְדַיָּ֔ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and a judge of1
- into a judge1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דַּי | day | sufficiency | Uses39 |
| דַּיָּג | dayag | fisher | Uses2 |
| דַּיָּה | dayah | hawk | Uses2 |
| דַּיָּן | dayan | judge | Uses1 |
| דַּיִשׁ | dayish | threshing | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- וְדַיַּ֣ן1
- לְדַיָּ֔ן1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
- לְדַיָּ֔ןledaiyanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a judge
Psalms
one use
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- וְדַיַּ֣ןvedaiyanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a judge of
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 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.