Definition

{a judge or advocate}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1781 (דַּיָּן)

Word family

• דַּיָּן dayân

How the KJV renders it

• judge

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.