דִּין
dîyn · H1778 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to judge, to pass judgment, to vindicate, to rule
Action by which someone gives a verdict on a case or person in a dispute and ensures that the verdict is implemented, which, ideally, results in relief for the innocent and punishment for the guilty; this can only be done by someone in authority, such as a judge or ruler or even God himself
ExamplesEzra 7:25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges so that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the Euphrates River, that is, all those who know the laws of your God; and you may teach anyone who is ignorant of them.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שָׁפַט shâphaṭ · H8199 · to judge, to pronounce judgement, to administer justice
- Both words overlap in the basic sense of judging; דִּין (dîyn, H1778) is very rarely attested.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Judge002004002006
- Ezra 7:25 recounts that Artaxerxes' decree charges Ezra, “appoint magistrates and judges so that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the Euphrates River.”
- Relief002001002023
- The same verse, Ezra 7:25, also carries this word's Relief-domain sense: the judges Ezra appoints are to vindicate “all those who know the laws of your God,” upholding their standing under the law.
- Safe002003003019
- The same verse, Ezra 7:25, likewise shows this word's Safe-domain sense, the appointed judges' role of upholding the people's rightful standing before the law.
- Conflict002003002006
- This Conflict code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the Hebrew form (H1777b), which independently carries a “to dispute; to argue” sense; this word's own single occurrence means only to judge or appoint judges, not to argue a dispute.
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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