verb judge (compare Arabic دَانَ intrans. to be obedient, submissive, trans. requite, compensate, rule, govern, دِينٌ obedience, abasement, recompense, دَيَّانٌ requiter, governor, مَدِينَةٌ city; Assyrian dânu, future (עתיד) idı̂n, judge, Aramaic דָּן (יְדִין, יְדוּן) Syriac ܕܳܢ (ܢܕܽܘܢ) judge, exercise judgment, punish, דִּיָּינָא, ܕܰܝܳܢܳܐ judge, דִּינָא, ܕܝܻܢ judgment, ܡܕܝܺܢܻܬܳܐ city;—on √ ע״י see NoldekeZMG 1883, 533), syn. שָׁפַט—
execute judgment, vindicate, in battle against enemies,
דָּן יָדִין עַמּוֹ Dan will judge (vindicate as a warrior)
his people (see Dillmann)
Breishis 49:16 (poet.); the Messianic king
בגוים Tehillim 110:6; God,
בִּגְבוּרָֽתְךָ תְדִינֵנִי in thy might judge me (vindicate me)
Tehillim 54:3.
govern,
אַתָּה תָּדִין אֶת־בֵּיתִי thou shalt govern my house Zecharia 3:7.
לֹא־יוּכַל לָדִין עִם he cannot contend with one mightier than he
Koheles 6:10.
participle (בינוני) וַיְהִי כָל־הָעָם נָדוֹן בְּכָל־שִׁבְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל and all the people were at strife througout all the tribes of Israel Shmuel Beis 19:10 (reciprocal, compare Driver.)
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לֹא־יָדוֹן רוּחִי בָֽאָדָם לְעֹלָם Breishis 6:3 cp. perhaps
دان continue, do something
continually, in mod. Egyptian Arabic (So
SK lxvii (1894), 211 f.).is difficult. (1) Septuagint Vulgate Peshitta Onk read
ידור or (Kue)
ילון abide in, dwell,—My spirit will not abide in man for ever; this best suits the context, but
ידור, as Aramaism, is doubtful (2) Kn De Schrader Revised Version margin render
rule in, supported by
Zecharia 3:7 only. (3) Gesenius' Thesaurus Ewald Dillmann render
be humbled in, sustained by Arabic, not Hebrew, usage. (4)
strive with of Authorized Version Revised Version (compare
6 above) is not justified.
יָדוֹן