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Dinah

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈdaɪnə//

A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)

proper noun

  1. 1

    A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)

    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.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.

    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 […]

Etymology

From Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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