דַּיָּן
day.yan
H1782
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Hebrew
judge
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Hebrew
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day.yan denotes officials appointed to judge the people under God's laws.
The attested plural noun denotes appointed judicial officials: Ezra 7:25 places them among those appointed to judge the people who know God's laws.
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Appointed judicial officials · dominant
In Ezra 7:25, the plural absolute form occurs in the instruction to appoint officials who may judge all the people beyond the river; the APB renders the clause "appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people."
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ezra 7:25 the APB presents the group as "magistrates and judges" appointed to judge the people. The precise English correspondence of the term within that pair remains uncertain.