Bible word study

Diy (Strong’s H1768): Meaning in the Bible

Diy (דִּי) is the Aramaic word numbered H1768 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as that, used as relative conjunction, and especially (with a preposition) in adverbial phrases; also as preposition of. In the King James Bible it is translated but, for(-asmuch ), now, of, seeing.

• Original wordדִּי
• Transliterationdîy
• Pronunciationdee
• Part of speechparticle (prt)
• Strong’s numberH1768
• LanguageAramaic

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. (Aramaic) apparently for H1668;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Diy appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Diy (H1768) stands behind 15 English renderings in 15 verses across 2 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezra (9), Daniel (6).

How the King James Bible renders Diy, by count

• of3 of 15 (20 percent)
• that3 of 15 (20 percent)
• for1 of 15 (7 percent)
• forasmuch1 of 15 (7 percent)
• have1 of 15 (7 percent)
• than1 of 15 (7 percent)

Three places to read Diy

• Ezra 4:10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
• Ezra 6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
• Daniel 2:14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Diy in the original Aramaic lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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