דָּיֵק
dâyêq · H1785 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Thing
- Siege wallSiege instruments12 verses
Meanings
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siege wall
Fence of poles or stakes, sometimes reinforced with, or even made of earth and stones; used to fortify entrenchments
Examples2 Kings 25:1 Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a siege wall all around it.
Jeremiah 52:4 Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it, and built a bulwark all around it.
Ezekiel 4:2 “Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, pile up an assault ramp, set up camps, and place battering rams against it all around.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 5
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 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 6 words
- מָעוֹז mâʻôwz · H4581 · stronghold, refuge
- Both refer to fortified structures—דָּיֵק (dâyêq, H1785) a fort specifically, מָעוֹז (mâʻôwz, H4581) a stronghold or fortress (which also carries broader senses of "strength" or "rock")—overlapping in the sense of a fortified defensive place.
- אַרְמוֹן ʼarmôwn · H759 · citadel, fortress, stronghold
- Both words denote fortified structures or buildings in the sphere of military and defensive architecture, as two terms for similar fortified structures.
- מָצוֹר mâtsôwr · H4692 · distress, siege
- Both denote fortified defensive structures—דָּיֵק (dâyêq, H1785) "fort," מָצוֹר (mâtsôwr, H4692) "fortress, bulwark, tower"—two distinct words for similar military architecture.
- מִבְצָר mibtsâr · H4013 · fortress, stronghold, fortified city
- Both lexemes denote physical fortifications and are genuine same-language near-synonyms (both refer to fortified structures/strongholds). Real domain-based evidence supports synonymy, but exhaustive verification is incomplete.
- מְצוּרָה mᵉtsûwrâh · H4694 · fortification, siege-works
- Both mean "fort" or "fortified place," denoting the same kind of military defensive structure.
- מְצַד mᵉtsad · H4679 · prey, victim, (trammel) net
- Both denote fortified military strongholds, overlapping directly as words for a defensive structure.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fortifications001003002003
- דָּיֵק names a siege fort or watchtower, a defensive or offensive military structure erected against a besieged city.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1785. dayeq דָּיֵק noun masculine bulwark, siege-wall — דָּיֵק 2Ki 25:1 2Ki 25:5t. — ד…
דָּיֵק noun masculine bulwark, siege-wall — דָּיֵק 2Ki 25:1 2Ki 25:5t. — ד ׳בנה סביב עליה 2Ki 25:1 = Jer 52:4; compare Eze 4:2; Eze 17:17; Eze 21:27 (all || סֹלֲלָה שׁפך); ד ׳נתן על Eze 26:8 (|| id.)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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