Aramaic word · H1782

דַּיָּן

vedaiyanin

judge

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament. ·

What it means

judge

Aramaic of day.yan (דַּיָּן "judge" H1781)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 7:25 וְדַיָּנִ֗ין and judges

    And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God, which you possess, are to appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people west of the Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach these laws to anyone who does not know them.

    Here: The ordinary Aramaic and Akkadian word for a judge who hears lawsuits. Paired with the previous word, it makes a full phrase, 'judges and justices,' covering the whole judicial staff.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.