din · judge, contend

What it means

din (דִּין) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “judge, contend”.

Judge, give justice to someone; also contend, strive. In Genesis 6:3 its sense is debated: "remain" or "contend".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To decide with authority who is in the right and to govern justly.
2. To take up someone's cause, give them justice.
3. To face off with another in words, each defending his side.
4. To dwell in someone, like YHWH's spirit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• will judge ×9
• judge ×6
• judges ×2
• He judged ×1
• contend ×1
• defend ×1
• has vindicated me ×1
• plead ×1
• remain ×1
• were arguing ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 6:3

  And YHWH said, “My spirit will not remain in the human being forever, for he also is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

• Genesis 15:14

  But also the nation that they serve I will judge, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

• Genesis 30:6

  Rachel said, “Elohim has vindicated me, and he has also heard my voice and given me a son.” That is why she called his name Dan.

• Genesis 49:16

  Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 32:36

  For YHWH will judge his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their strength is gone and there is no one restrained or left.

• 1 Samuel 2:10

  YHWH: those who contend with him will be shattered; against them he will thunder in the heavens. YHWH will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and lift high the horn of his anointed.”

• 2 Samuel 19:9

  All the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he rescued us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.

• Job 36:31

  For by them he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

• Psalms 7:8

  YHWH judges the peoples. Judge me, YHWH, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity that is in me.

• Psalms 9:8

  And he will judge the world in righteousness; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 50:4

  He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, to judge his people:

• Psalms 54:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?” Elohim, by your name save me, and by your might judge me.

• Psalms 72:2

  May he judge your people with righteousness, and your afflicted with justice.

• Psalms 96:10

  Say among the nations, “YHWH reigns!” The world also is firm; it will not be shaken; he will judge the peoples with uprightness.

• Psalms 110:6

  He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses; he will shatter the head over a wide land.

• Psalms 135:14

  For YHWH will judge his people, and on his servants he will have compassion.

• Proverbs 31:9

  Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the afflicted and the needy.

• Ecclesiastes 6:10

  Whatever has been, already its name has been called; and it is known that he is a human being, and he cannot contend with the one who is stronger than he.

• Isaiah 3:13

  YHWH takes his place to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

• Jeremiah 5:28

  They have grown fat, they are sleek; they also go beyond the deeds of evil; the cause they do not plead, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the justice of the needy they do not defend.

• Jeremiah 21:12

  house of David! Thus says YHWH: Judge justly in the morning, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 22:16

  He judged the cause of the afflicted and the needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 30:13

  There is no one to judge your cause, for a sore; remedies of healing there are none for you.

• Zechariah 3:7

  “Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: If you walk in my ways, and if you keep my charge, then you also will judge my house and also will keep my courts; and I will give you access among these who are standing here.