din · case, judgment

What it means

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

Case, lawsuit: the matter brought before a judge; also its sentence; strife.

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. A matter before the judge.
2. What the judge decides.
3. A quarrel, a fight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cause ×9
• judgment ×8
• case ×2
• dispute ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Esther×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4

• Deuteronomy 17:8

  If a matter for judgment is too difficult for you, between blood and blood, between case and case, and between blow and blow, matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses.

• Esther 1:13

  And the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for such was the king’s practice before all who knew law and judgment;

• Job 19:29

  be afraid yourselves of the sword, for wrath is iniquities of the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

• Job 35:14

  How much less when you say that you do not perceive him. The judgment is before him, and wait for him.

• Job 36:17

  But with the judgment of the wicked you are filled; judgment and justice take hold of you.

• Psalms 9:4

  For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on the throne, righteous judge.

• Psalms 76:8

  From the heavens you made judgment heard; the earth feared and was still,

• Psalms 140:12

  I know that YHWH will execute the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the needy.

• Proverbs 20:8

  A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows with his eyes all evil.

• Proverbs 22:10

  Drive out the scoffer, and strife will go out; and dispute and disgrace will cease.

• Proverbs 29:7

  The righteous knows the cause of the poor; the wicked does not understand knowledge.

• Proverbs 31:5

  lest he drink and forget what is decreed and pervert the cause of all the sons of affliction.

• Proverbs 31:8

  Open your mouth for the mute, for the cause of all the sons of desolation.

• Isaiah 10:2

  to turn aside the poor from judgment, and to rob the afflicted of my people of justice, so that widows become their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans!

• 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 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.

And 3 more times.