דִּין dîyn — to rule
Translated in the KJV as contend contend execute judge minister judgment plead at strife strive.
or (Genesis 6:3) דּוּן; a primitive root; to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law).
dîyn in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive construct 3Participle (active) 2Imperative 2
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›