- דין
- דִּין, דִּינָאch. sam( דִּין II m. (b. h.; preced.) equity), 1) law, decision; cause Targ. Is. 58:6, v. מַסְטֵי. Targ. Prov. 20:8; a. fr.Gen. R. s. 45 יבעי דִּינִי גבך may my cause be required at thy hands, i. e. you wronged me, cmp. דִּיקְיֹון.Snh.8a יומא דד׳ court day. B. Kam.39a; B. Mets. 117b נחית לעומקיה דד׳ he enters into the depth of the case before him. B. Bath. 173b ד׳ דפרסאי Persian law (arbitrary). B. Kam. 113a. a. fr. ד׳ דמלכותא ד׳ the law of the (secular) government is law (must supersede the Jewish law in civil affairs). B. Mets83a ד׳ הכי is this the law? Ber.5b דעביד ד׳ בלא ד׳ that He will pass sentence without justice (punish without cause). Nidd.69a, v. גַּלְחִי. Gitt.56b bot. ד׳ דההוא גברא במאי what is this mans (thy) punishment (in the nether world)? Lev. R. s. 27 אילו הוה הדין ד׳וכ׳ if such a case would come up in your country. Ib. דִּינְכֹון אתיתי למחמי (Tanḥ. Emor 6 דיציבון, read: דִּינֵיכֹון pl.) I came to see your administration of the law; a. fr. 2) contest, quarrel. Targ. Prov. 17:1; a. fr.Pl. דִּינִין. Targ. Y. Gen. 13:7 (read:) והוו דינין. Targ. Y. Ex. 1:10 בהלין ד׳ by what laws; a. fr.Y.Keth.IX, 33b bot. דין מוגמרין, v. דִּיאֲטַגְמָא.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.