דָּכָה
dâkâh · H1794 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to crush
Literally: to crush; hence: causative by which a deity inflicts deadly wounds on a individual or group as if crushing that person or those people with a heavy object
ExamplesPsalm 44:19 Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with deep darkness.
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to be crushed
Literally: to be crushed; hence: state in which someone suffers harm and humiliation, which feels as if one has been crushed with a heavy object
ExamplesPsalm 10:10 Then he crushes the needy one, who cowers; And unfortunate people fall by his mighty power,
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to crush
Literally: to crush; hence: causative action by which someone causes someone else to suffer harm and humiliation, which feels as if having been crushed with a heavy object
ExamplesPsalm 38:8 I feel faint and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart.
Psalm 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have broken rejoice.
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to crush, to make humble, to make contrite
Literally: to crush; hence: causative action by which someone causes someone else to become humble and remorseful by causing that person to suffer harm and humiliation
ExamplesPsalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.
How it’s used In 3 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
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּus 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until+ מְאֹדvery 1
- בin/on/with+ מָקוֹםplace 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 1 word
- כָּנַע kânaʻ · H3665 · to humble oneself, to humble
- Both denote lowering or humbling—דָּכָה (dâkâh, H1794) broken or contrite, כָּנַע (kânaʻ, H3665) to humble or bring down—overlapping in the sense of being made low.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ταπεινόω tapeinóō · G5013 · to make low, to level off, to make level
- ταπεινόω emphasizes the state of humiliation or lowering (particularly spiritual/social humbling), while דָּכָה focuses on the physical act of breaking or crushing that produces contrition.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Dead002001001018
- דָּכָה describes being crushed down toward death or destruction, an extension of the word's core sense of being broken and brought low, as the needy one is crushed by the wicked.
- Unsafe002003003022
- The crushed and cowering state דָּכָה describes is one of vulnerability, as the needy fall under the mighty power of their oppressor.
- Insignificant002001002015
- דָּכָה also describes a lowly, humbled state, the reduction of a person to insignificance under the weight of oppression or grief, as the Psalmist describes himself as utterly crushed.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1794. dakah [דָּכָה] verb id. (only Psalms); — Qal dubious; ודכה (יָשֹׁחַ) Psa 10:10 Kt…
[דָּכָה] verb id. (only Psalms); —
Qal dubious; ודכה (יָשֹׁחַ) Psa 10:10 Kt is read as
Qal Perfect וְדָכָה consecutive by Rob-Ges Ol De and others, i.e. and he is crushed, or and he croucheth (Qr יִדְכֶּה Imperfect so AV RV he croucheth); others read יָשֹׁחַ וְדָכֶה (adjective intransitive or passive) and crushed he sinketh down, compare VB Che; possible would be יִדָּכֶה Niph`al (|| יָשֹׁחַ and ונפל).
Niph`al Perfect וְנִדְכֵּ֫יתִי Psa 38:9; Participle נִדְכֶּה Psa 51:19; — be crushed, broken, of physical distress Psa 38:9 (|| נְפוּגֹתִי); be contrite (נִדְכֶּה לֵב) Psa 51:19 (|| נִשְׁבָּר).
Pi`el Perfect דִּכִּיתָ Psa 51:10; suffix דִּכִּיתָנוּ Psa 44:20; crush down, of divine wrath; with accusative Psa 44:20, and crush to pieces, object reference to עצמות, in metaphor Psa 51:10. — דָּכוּ֨ Num 11:8 see דוך.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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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