דִּי
which
also: who, that fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
- Conjunction
- A joining word (e.g. “and,” “but”) linking words or clauses.
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1768 appears in the Book of Jeremiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
די (dîy) is a Hebrew word most often rendered “which.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 130 of 186 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 186 verses — common. It first appears in Ezra 4:9. Ranging over 3 senses, its meaning includes “who” and “that”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1768 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 186
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 186 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #142
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 142 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 186 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 186 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 185 verses · 99%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Of 3×, That 2×
- American Standard Version: That 3×, Of 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: That 53×, Of 31×, Who 18×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 103×, Of 67×, Who 35×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1768 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1768 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1768 across 172 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 171 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1768 across 356 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- who, which, that (particle of relation)
- that of, which belongs to, that (mark of genitive)
- that, because (conjunction)
Word origin
דִּי part. of relation, who, which, that, used also as mark of gen. and conj. that, because
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דא (dâʼ) (H1668).
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דְּ־
- a prefix, corresp. to h. שֶׁ־, of, who, which, that (quod). Targ. Gen. XXXI, 42. Ib. IX, 5; a. v. fr.—Ber. 2ᵃ זמן ק"ש דשכיבה the time of reading the Sh’ma of bed-time (Deut. VI, 7). Ib. ליתני דערבית וכ׳ let him first state that of (the law concerning) the evening prayer. Ib. הא קמ"ל דכפרה וכ׳ we are given to understand (by implication) that &c. Ib. ממאי דהאי וכ׳ whence is it proved that this uba &c.? Ib.ᵇ ואינהו דמחשכי וכ׳ and it was they who (as an exception) worked late and early; a. v. fr.—[This prefix is used for the formation of what may be named Difel nouns, as דְּבֵיתָא, דִּכְמָא &c., a. Dispeel nouns as דִּיסְקַרְתָּא &c.] e.g. Deuteronomy 6:7
דִּי
- 1. who, which, where, whom &c. Dan. IV, 5; a. fr.—Targ. Gen. XXIV, 27. Targ. Ps. LXXIII, 27; a. fr.—Mostly as prefix: דִּי־, דִּ־, דְּ־, v. דְּ־.—With personal pronouns דִּידִי, דִּילִי; דִּידָךְ, דִּידֵיךְ, דִּילָךְ, דִּילִיךְ; דִּידֵיה, דִּידָהּ, דִּילֵיה, דִּילָהּ; דִּידָן, דִּילָן; דִּידְכוֹן, דִּלְכוֹן, דִּידְכוּ, דִּידְכֶן; דִּידְהוֹן, דִּידְהוּ, דִּידְהִי mine, thine &c. Targ. O. Gen. XXXI, 16 דילנא (Y. די לנא). Targ. O. ib. XXXIII, 9; a. fr.—B. Bath. 4ᵇ דידי ודידיה הוא it is mine and his. Ib. עבד דידיה he made the ḥazith on his side, v. חָזִית. Ber. 2ᵇ בין השמשות דידך thy definition of ben hash-sh’mashoth. Tam. 32ᵃ דידי טבא מדידכו my advice is better than yours. Gitt. 84ᵇ דילכון your countryman (Rab Kahăna). B. Kam. 117ᵇ דילכון אמרי דילהון היא I believed (learning) was yours (the Palestineans’); but it is theirs (the Babylonians’); Succ. 44ᵃ דִּלְכוֹן, דִּלְהוֹן.—Ḥull. 42ᵇ תנא דידן the author or compiler of our Mishnah. Deut. R. s. 2 ר"י דידיה אמר R. J. said in his own name. Ab. Zar. 17ᵃ פליגא דידיה אדידיה there is a discrepancy between two opinions of his. Y. Ḥag. II, 78ᵃ top מן דידכֶן; Y. Snh. VI, 23ᶜ bot. מן דידכון one of yours. e.g. Daniel 4:5
- 2. that (quod). Dan. IV, 3; a. fr.—Y. Taan. IV, 67ᶜ bot. די תעניתא that it is a fast-day. e.g. Daniel 4:3
דִּי II
- = דְּאִי, for if. Y. R. Hasḥ. I, 56ᵇ, די לא כן. Also דִּילָא, דִּלָא for if not. Y. Ter. V, 43ᶜ; a. fr.—דִּילָכֵן, דִּלָכֵן for if not so. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵃ bot.; a. fr. V. דִּל.
דַּי
- sufficiency, plenty; constr. דֵּי enough for; דּיִּי enough for me, דַּיֶּיךָ enough for thee &c. Nidd. I, 1 דַּיָּין שעתן they have enough for the time being, i.e. the unclean condition, now discovered, has no retrospective effect, opp. מפְּקִידָה לפקידה. Pes. 8ᵇ דַּיֵּינוּ we should have been contented. Taan. 24ᵇ דַּיּוֹ בקב וכ׳ (Ms. M. דַּיי לו קב) he is contented with a Kab of &c. B. Kam. II, 5 (25ᵃ) דיו לבא מן הדין וכ׳ it is sufficient for the law which is derived by conclusion ad majus to be as strict as the law from which it is derived, i.e. you cannot go beyond the latter. B. Kam. ור"ט לית ליה דיו does R. T. not follow the principle of dayyo (that the derived law cannot go beyond the original)? והא דיו דאורייתא הוא is not the principle of dayyo biblical?—Gen. R. s. 21 דייך פפוס it is enough for thee, Papus, i.e. say no more; a. fr.—With prefix כְּדַי (v. כְּדָיי), constr. כְּדֵי as much as is required for, corresponding to, as conj. in order to. Maasr. V, 6 ומצא כ׳ מדתו and found a quantity corresponding to what he had measured into it (reasonably increased); יתר על כ׳ מדתו more than the reasonable quantity.—כ׳ דיבור or תוך כ׳ ד׳ as much, within as much, time as is needed for an utterance (e.g. a greeting, v. Y. Ber. I, 4ᵇ). B. Kam. 73ᵃ, a. fr. תוך כ׳ דיבור כדיבור דמי two statements following each other immediately are considered one. Ib. 73ᵇ תרי ת׳ כ׳ ד׳ there are two different intervals comprised under the expression tokh k’d’e dibbur. Snh. 31ᵇ bot. כ׳ לחלוק וכ׳ in order to give honor to &c. Ib. 32ᵃ bot. כ׳ שלא תנעול דלת וכ׳ in order not to make loans too difficult, v. דֶּלֶת; a. fr.
דִּי־
- (representing δις-, δύο) two, twice, cmp. דּוּ III.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 32 distinct written forms H1768 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דִּֽי | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:20 | 85 |
| דִּ֣י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:9 | 80 |
| דִּ֥י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:8 | 55 |
| דִּי | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:34 | 23 |
| דִֽי | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:11 | 18 |
| דִּ֚י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:10 | 16 |
| דִּ֤י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:30 | 14 |
| דִּ֠י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 4:9 | 6 |
| דִּ֛י | Conjunction | Daniel 4:18 | 6 |
| דִּ֖י | Particle, Relative | Ezra 4:24 | 5 |
| דִּי֩ | Particle, Relative | Daniel 3:27 | 5 |
| דִּ֧י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:23 | 4 |
| וְ/דִֽי | Particle, Relative | Daniel 5:19 | 4 |
| וְ/דִ֣י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 4:23 | 3 |
| דִי | Particle, Relative | Ezra 6:5 | 3 |
| דִּ֞י | Conjunction | Daniel 3:22 | 2 |
| דִ֥י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 2:29 | 2 |
| דִּ֨י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 7:11 | 2 |
| ד/הוא | Particle, Accusative | Ezra 4:9 | 1 |
| דִי֩ | Pronoun, Indefinite, Common, Singular | Ezra 7:18 | 1 |
| דִּ֗י | Particle, Relative | Ezra 7:23 | 1 |
| דִּ֡י | Conjunction | Ezra 4:15 | 1 |
| דֵּ֥י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 3:15 | 1 |
| די | Conjunction | Daniel 2:43 | 1 |
| וְ/דִ֛י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 4:8 | 1 |
| וְ/דִ֧י | Particle, Relative | Ezra 7:25 | 1 |
| וְ/דִי֙ | Particle, Relative | Daniel 4:37 | 1 |
| וּ/כְ/דִי֙ | Conjunction | Daniel 5:20 | 1 |
| כְ/דִ֣י | Conjunction | Daniel 2:43 | 1 |
| כְּ/דִ֣י | Particle, Relative | Daniel 3:7 | 1 |
| כְּ/דִ֧י | Conjunction | Daniel 6:14 | 1 |
| כְּ/דִ֨י | Conjunction | Daniel 6:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1768, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
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People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 173 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 186 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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