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דֵּין דֶּן‏ pron. this one

this one Qumran, Jud, JLAtg, Gal, PTA, CPA, Sam, BabMBK, LJLA. 4QTob b4.3.5=07:2 : דמה עלימא דן לטובי בר דדי‏ this lad looks like my cousin PN. TgO Gen5:1 : דֵין סְפַר תוֹלְדָת אָדָם‏ . GT D Gen41:38 : הַן אֲנַן מַשְכְּחִין כְּ֯וַות דֵין גְ֯בַ֯ר֯‏ where are we going to find a man like this one?. PJ Gen5:29 : דין ינחמיננא מפולחננא‏ this one will relieve us of our toil. דין לדין‏, דין עם דין‏, etc. : to/with one another JLAtg, Gal, LJLA. TgO Ex14:20 : וְלָא אִתקָרַבֻו דֵין לְוָת דֵין כֹל לֵיליָא‏ they were not brought near each other the whole night. TN Ex25:20 : ואפיהון הפיכין דן לקבל דן‏ with their faces turned towards one another. PJ Gen11:8 : והוו קטלין דין לדין‏ they were killing one another.

as enclitic in interrogative contexts: now, here, then : see s.v. dyn conj./adv. JLAtg, Sam, LJLA. TgO Gen27:20 : מָא דֵין אוֹחִיתָא לְאַשכָחָא‏ how is that you found it so quickly?. PJ Gen25:22 : אם כדין הוא צערא דילידתא למה דין לי בנין‏ if the pain of giving birth is such, why then do I have children?.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 153a; Jastrow: 315; Levy Ch-W: 1:181; Tal Sam: 190; DJA: 41b; Cook,Qumran: 56;

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Derivatives:

ˀy zˀ dyn pron. which

ˀydyn pron. which one

bdyn (bəḏēn) adv. here

hdn (hāḏēn) pron. this (m.)

hˀy pron. this

hˀydnˀ adv. now; today

ywmdn, ywmˀ dyn adv. today

kdyn (kḏēn) adv. so

bkdn adv. then, in this manner

hkdyn, hykdyn (hakkəḏēn, hēḵḏēn) adv. thus, in this way

hkdyn adv. #2 is it so?