Strong’s H1779 · Hebrew

דִּין
dîyn
deen

Definition

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

Etymology

or (Job 19:29) דּוּן; from H1777 (דִּין);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • cause
  • judgement
  • plea
  • strife

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.