Dinah
English
Etymology
Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dinah
- A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:: Genesis 34: 1-2:
- And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.
- 1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon:
- Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]
Translations
female given name — see Dina
See also
Anagrams
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Etymology
From English Dinah, from Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, “judged, vindicated”).
Proper noun
Dinah
- a female given name from Hebrew
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