Dâkâʼ — H1792

Definition

verb

to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)

1. to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken
1. (Niphal)
1. to be crushed
2. to be contrite (fig.)
2. (Piel) to crush
3. (Pual)
1. to be crushed, be shattered
2. to be made contrite
4. (Hithpael) to allow oneself to be crushed

Usually translated as

beat to pieces, bruise, crush, destroy, oppress, break, contrite, humble, smite

Origin

a primitive root (compare H1794)

• Dâkâh (H1794)

Greek equivalents

• adikéō (G91)
• atimázō (G818)
• kathairéō (G2507)
• kakóō (G2559)
• oligópsychos (G3642)
• paíō (G3817)
• syntríbō (G4937)
• tapeinós (G5011)
• tapeinóō (G5013)
• tapeínōsis (G5014)

Occurrences

Dâkâʼ occurs 18 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (6), Psalms (4), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (5), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1)

• Job 4:19 — How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed (יְ֝דַכְּא֗וּם) before the moth?
• Job 5:4 — His children are far from safety, and they are crushed (וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ) in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
• Job 6:9 — Even that it would please God to destroy (וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי) me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• Job 19:2 — How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces (וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי) with words?
• Job 22:9 — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken (יְדֻכָּֽא).
• Job 34:25 — Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed (וְיִדַּכָּֽאוּ).
• Psalms 72:4 — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces (וִֽידַכֵּ֣א) the oppressor.
• Psalms 89:10 — Thou hast broken (דִכִּ֣אתָ) Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
• Psalms 94:5 — They break in pieces (יְדַכְּא֑וּ) thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
• Psalms 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten (דִּכָּ֣א) my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
• Proverbs 22:22 — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress (תְּדַכֵּ֖א) the afflicted in the gate:
• Isaiah 3:15 — What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces (תְּדַכְּא֣וּ), and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Isaiah 19:10 — And they shall be broken (מְדֻכָּאִ֑ים) in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
• Isaiah 53:5 — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised (מְדֻכָּ֖א) for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
• Isaiah 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise (דַּכְּאוֹ֙) him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• Isaiah 57:15 — For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones (נִדְכָּאִֽים).
• Jeremiah 44:10 — They are not humbled (דֻכְּא֔וּ) even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
• Lamentations 3:34 — To crush (לְדַכֵּא֙) under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,