Dîyn — H1779

Definition

masculine noun

judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife

1. judgment
1. judgment
2. cause, plea
3. condemnation, judgment
4. dispute, legal suit, strife
5. government

Usually translated as

cause, plea, strife, judgement

Origin

or (Job 19:29) dûwn; from H1777

• Derived from Dîyn (H1777)

Greek equivalents

• díkaios (G1342)
• díkē (G1349)
• kríma (G2917)
• krísis (G2920)
• kritḗrion (G2922)
• synédrion (G4892)

Occurrences

Dîyn occurs 20 times in 17 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), Esther (1), Job (3), Psalms (3), Proverbs (5), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (3)

• Deuteronomy 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea (דִּ֣ין) and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
• Deuteronomy 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea (לְדִ֗ין), and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
• Esther 1:13 — Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment (וָדִֽין):
• Job 19:29 — Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment (שַׁדּֽוּן).
• Job 35:14 — Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment (דִּ֥ין) is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
• Job 36:17 — But thou hast fulfilled the judgment (וְדִין) of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
• Job 36:17 — But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment (דִּ֖ין) and justice take hold on thee.
• Psalms 9:4 — For thou hast maintained my right and my cause (וְדִינִ֑י); thou satest in the throne judging right.
• Psalms 76:8 — Thou didst cause judgment (דִּ֑ין) to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
• Psalms 140:12 — I know that the LORD will maintain the cause (דִּ֣ין) of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
• Proverbs 20:8 — A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment (דִ֑ין) scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
• Proverbs 22:10 — Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife (דִּ֣ין) and reproach shall cease.
• Proverbs 29:7 — The righteous considereth the cause (דִּ֣ין) of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
• Proverbs 31:5 — Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment (דִּ֣ין) of any of the afflicted.
• Proverbs 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause (דִּ֝֗ין) of all such as are appointed to destruction.
• Isaiah 10:2 — To turn aside the needy from judgment (מִדִּין֙), and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
• Jeremiah 5:28 — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause (דִּ֣ין), the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
• Jeremiah 5:28 — They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause (דִּ֥ין) of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
• Jeremiah 22:16 — He judged the cause (דִּין) of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 30:13 — There is none to plead thy cause (דִּינֵ֖ךְ), that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.