Din דִּין

Din (Hebrew דִּין, Strong's H1779) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “judgment”. It occurs 20 times in 17 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Din, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 17:8
  If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Esther

• Esther 1:13
  Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.

Job

• Job 19:29
  Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
• Job 35:14
  Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
• Job 36:17
  But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.

Psalms

• Psalm 9:4
  For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
• Psalm 76:8
  Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still
• Psalm 140:12
  I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 20:8
  A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• Proverbs 22:10
  Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
• Proverbs 29:7
  The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.
• Proverbs 31:5
  Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
• Proverbs 31:8
  Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 10:2
  To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 5:28
  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
• Jeremiah 22:16
  He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 30:13
  There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).