Lexical Summary Diynay: judges Original Word: דִּינַיTransliteration: Diynay Phonetic Spelling: (dee-nah'-ee) Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: judges Meaning: a Dinaite Strong's Concordance Dinaite (Aramaic) partial from uncertain primitive; a Dinaite or inhabitant of some unknown Assyria province -- Dinaite. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1784. Diynay דִּינָיֵא proper name, of a people (?) Ezra 4:9 (so most, but HoffmZA ii. 55 Marquart64 AndrM 59* MeyEntst. J. 39 Str46* read דַּיָּנַיָּא judges (as translation of Persian dâtabara), while Scheft81 (improbable) compare Old Iranian *denya, (the) orthodox, i.e. Persians). |
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