Dâchâh — H1760

Definition

verb

to push down

1. to push, thrust, chase, overflow, totter, sore, drive away or out, be outcast, be cast down
1. (Qal) to push, push violently
2. (Niphal) to be thrust down, be cast down
3. (Pual) to be thrust down

Usually translated as

sore, chase, overthrow, drive away, outcast, thrust, totter

Origin

or dâchach; (Jeremiah 23:12), a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• anatrépō (G396)
• apōthéomai (G683)
• exōthéō (G1856)

Occurrences

Dâchâh occurs 10 times in 9 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Psalms (6), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1)

• Psalms 35:5 — Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase (דּוֹחֶֽה) them.
• Psalms 36:12 — There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down (דֹּ֝ח֗וּ), and shall not be able to rise.
• Psalms 62:3 — How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering (הַדְּחוּיָֽה) fence.
• Psalms 118:13 — Thou hast thrust sore (דְחִיתַ֣נִי) at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
• Psalms 118:13 — Thou hast thrust sore (דַּחֹ֣ה) at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
• Psalms 140:4 — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow (לִדְח֥וֹת) my goings.
• Psalms 147:2 — The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
• Proverbs 14:32 — The wicked is driven away (יִדָּחֶ֣ה) in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• Isaiah 56:8 — The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
• Jeremiah 23:12 — Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on (יִדַּ֖חוּ), and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.