DINAITES (Ezr_4:9).A people settled in Samaria by Osnappar (i.e. probably Ashurbanipal). They have been variously identified with the Da-ja-çni, a tribe of western Armenia, mentioned in inscriptions of Tiglathpileser I.; and with the inhabitants of Deinaver, a Median city, or of Din-Sharru near Susa. The last view seems the most probable.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Cuthean colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrians, after Shalmaneser's carrying away of the ten tribes (Ezr_4:9).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
dı̄?na-ı̄ts (דּיניא, dı̄nāyē'): A people mentioned in Ezr_4:9, as settled in the city of Samaria by Osnappar (Assurbanipal). The identification is uncertain.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.