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דָּחָה

dâchâh · H1760 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to push, thrust or drive away

    An action by which humans or deities violently push humans or objects in a direction, so that they move away or fall

    Examples

    Psalm 35:5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, With the angel of the LORD driving them on.

    Psalm 62:3 How long will you attack a man, That you may murder him, all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

  2. to push, to thrust

    Causative action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to fail in their efforts, as if by giving them a violent push to make them stumble and fall

    Examples

    Psalm 36:12 Those who do injustice have fallen there; They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

    Psalm 118:13 You pushed me violently so that I was falling, But the LORD helped me.

    Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is thrust down by his own wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

  3. Literally: to push (someone's) step; hence: causative action by which humans cause humans to fail in their efforts, as if by giving them a violent push to make them stumble and fall (to push, to thrust down, to make (someone) fall)

    Examples

    Psalm 140:4 Keep me, LORD, from the hands of the wicked; Protect me from violent men Who intend to trip up my feet.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
הָדַף hâdaph · H1920 · to push, to thrust out, to drive out
Both words denote forceful pushing or driving away and have overlapping meanings (thrust, drive away, cast away or out); both describe similar acts of expulsion.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Move002002001012
דָּחָה describes driving away or thrusting someone from a place, an action of forceful movement applied to a person being cast out or overthrown.
Fail002003003013
דָּחָה also describes tottering, stumbling, or being overthrown, the resulting collapse or failure that comes from being driven down or thrust aside.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּחָהdâchâh · H1760דְּחִי dᵉchîy · H1762 · falling · 2×דַּחֲוָה dachăvâh · H1761 · instrument of music · 1×מִדְחֶה midcheh · H4072 · downfall · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1760. dachah דָּחָה verb push, thrust (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic דְּחָא דְּחִי,, ; cf…
H1760. dachah
דָּחָה verb push, thrust (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic דְּחָא דְּחִי,, ; cf also Arabic , spread, extend, also throw, propel) —
Qal Perfect2masculine singular suffix דְּחִיתַנִי Psa 118:13; Infinitive construct לִדְחוֺת Psa 140:5; absolute דָּחֹה Psa 118:13; Participle active דֹּחֶה Psa 35:5 (read ᵐ5 דֹּחָם De Che); passive feminine הַדְּחוּיָה Psa 62:4; — push, דָחָה דָּחֹה push violently figurative with accusative Psa 118:13 followed by clause of purpose לִנְמֹּל, compare פעמי לִדְחוֺת Psa 140:5 (Che trip up my feet), & Psa 35:5 (transpose דחה with רדפם Psa 35:6 and read ᵐ5 דֹּחָם; compare וַחֲלַקְלַקֹּת חשׁך יְהִידֿרכם va, and Jer 23:12); pushed in (Che), in simile, passive participle, said of גָּדֵר wall Psa 62:4 (|| נטוי קיר).
Niph`al Imperfect יִדָּחֶה Pro 14:32; (3masculine plural יִדַּ֫חוּ Jer 23:12 is from דחח, if rightly pointed; נִדְחֵי Isa 11:12; Isa 56:8; Psa 147:2, see below נדח); — be thrust or cast down, figurative of wicked Pro 14:32, compare Psa 35:6 above
Pu`al Perfect3plural דֹּחוּ Psalm 36:13 they are thrust down (|| נפלו & קום יכלו לא).
[דָּחַח] verb only
Niph`al Imperfect3masculine plural יִדַּ֫חוּ (Köi. 377) Jer 23:12 they shall be thrust down, figurative, of wicked; read perhaps יִדָּח֫וּ, from דחה q. v.
דחן (√ of following; perhaps compare Arabic smoke arose, hence become dusky, dingy, inclining to black).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Move3 occurrencesFail5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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