Definition

judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife

Etymology

or (Job 19:29) דּוּן; from H1777 (דִּין);

Where the KJV renders it

• cause
• judgement
• plea
• strife

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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