Dâqaq — H1854

Definition

verb

to crush (or intransitively) crumble

1. to crush, pulverise, thresh
1. (Qal)
1. to crush
2. to be fine
2. (Hiphil) to pulverise, make dust of
3. (Hophal) to be crushed

Usually translated as

small, powder, beat in pieces, bruise, make dust, stamp

Origin

a primitive root (compare H1915)

• Hâdak (H1915)

Greek equivalents

• katapatéō (G2662)

Occurrences

Dâqaq occurs 13 times in 12 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Deuteronomy (1), 2 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (3), Isaiah (2), Micah (1)

• Exodus 30:36 — And thou shalt beat some of it very small (הָדֵק֒), and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
• Exodus 32:20 — And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder (דָּ֑ק), and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
• Deuteronomy 9:21 — And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small (דַּ֖ק) as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
• 2 Samuel 22:43 — Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp (אֲדִקֵּ֖ם) them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
• 2 Kings 23:6 — And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small (וַיָּ֣דֶק) to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
• 2 Kings 23:15 — Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small (הֵדַ֥ק) to powder, and burned the grove.
• 2 Chronicles 15:16 — And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped (וַיָּ֕דֶק) it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
• 2 Chronicles 34:4 — And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust (וְהֵדַ֔ק) of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
• 2 Chronicles 34:7 — And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder (לְהֵדַ֔ק), and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 28:28 — Bread corn is bruised (יוּדָ֔ק); because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
• Isaiah 28:28 — Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise (יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ) it with his horsemen.
• Isaiah 41:15 — Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small (וְתָדֹ֔ק), and shalt make the hills as chaff.
• Micah 4:13 — Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces (וַהֲדִקּ֖וֹת) many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.