דָּחַק
dâchaq · H1766 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to jostle
Action by which someone knocks or pushes against one's neighbor while marching forward
ExamplesJoel 2:8 They do not crowd each other, Every warrior of them marches in his path; When they burst through the defenses, They do not break ranks.
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to oppress
Causative action by which humans cause hardship to other humans
ExamplesJudges 2:18 And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who tormented and oppressed them.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָחbrother 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
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 2 words
- לָחַץ lâchats · H3905 · to press oneself, to squeeze oneself, to press
- לָחַץ shares the sense of applying oppressive pressure or force, overlapping with דָּחַק's vexing/pressing aspect, though לָחַץ more commonly emphasizes sustained oppression while דָּחַק may emphasize the thrusting action itself.
- נָגַשׂ nâgas · H5065 · taskmaster, driver, ruler
- נָגַשׂ conveys pressing or driving someone hard, often in oppressive contexts (taskmasters, creditors), semantically close to דָּחַק's vexing and pressing force.
In the other Testament 1 word
- θλίβω thlíbō · G2346 · to press against, to crowd against, to cause trouble to
- θλίβω conveys the sense of pressing/oppressing that closely matches the vexing, oppressive force implied by דָּחַק's 'thrust, vex' meanings, particularly in contexts of affliction or distress.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Impact002001001024
- דָּחַק describes thrusting or pressing against something, an action of physical force applied against a person or obstacle.
- Unsafe002003003022
- דָּחַק also carries the sense of vexing or oppressing, the resulting distress and danger inflicted on those thrust upon or pressed hard by an enemy.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1766. dachaq [דָּחַק] verb thrust, crowd, oppress (Late Hebrew id., Arabic drive away,…
[דָּחַק] verb thrust, crowd, oppress (Late Hebrew id., Arabic drive away, remove, Aramaic דְּחַק, ) —
Qal Imperfect יִדְחָק֔וּן thrust, crowd, of locusts in swarm Joe 2:8; Participle active plural suffix וְדֹחֲקֵיהֶם לֹחֲצֵיהֶם Jdg 2:18 (because of) them that maltreated and oppressed them.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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