Original Word: דִּינָיֵא Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Diynay Phonetic Spelling: (dee-nah'-ee) Short Definition: dinaites
דִּינָיֵא proper name, of a people (?) Ezra 4:9 (so most, but HoffmZA ii. 55 Marquart64 AndrM 59* MeyEntst. J. 39 Str46* read דַּיָּנַיָּא judges (as translation of Persian dâtabara), while Scheft81 (improbable) compare Old Iranian *denya, (the) orthodox, i.e. Persians).
Dinaite
(Aramaic) partial from uncertain primitive; a Dinaite or inhabitant of some unknown Assyria province -- Dinaite.
Ezra 4:9 BIB:וּשְׁאָ֖ר כְּנָוָתְה֑וֹן דִּ֠ינָיֵא וַאֲפַרְסַתְכָיֵ֞א טַרְפְּלָיֵ֣א NAS: of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, KJV: of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, INT: and the rest of their colleagues the judges and the lesser the officials
