דָּכָא dakah

Hebrew word for “to crush” · Strong’s H1792 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

1) to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken;

How it is translated

Glosses given for dakah in context, with how often each is used:

• crush 5
• crushed 3
• may be crushed 2
• people crush 1
• may he crush 1
• will you crush? 1
• has been crushed 1
• may crush 1
• has crushed 1
• contrite people 1
• have been made contrite 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Isaiah 53 (2), Job 4 (1), Job 5 (1), Job 6 (1), Job 19 (1), Job 22 (1), Job 34 (1), Psalms 72 (1), Psalms 89 (1), Psalms 94 (1)

Forms

• וידכאו 2
• דכאו 2
• ידכאום 1
• וידכאני 1
• ותדכאונני 1
• ידכא 1
• וידכא 1
• דכאת 1
• ידכאו 1
• דכא 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with dakah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עָנִי ani “afflicted” 3
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 4
• זְרוֹעַ zeroa “arm” 2
• שָׁכַן shakhan “to dwell” 2
• אֹיֵב oyev “enemy” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 2
• עַד ad “till” 2

Key verses

The verses using dakah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Job 4:19 — How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
• Job 5:4 — His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
• Job 19:2 — How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
• Job 22:9 — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
• Psalms 72:4 — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
• Psalms 94:5 — They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
• Psalms 143:3 — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten 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 the afflicted in the gate:
• Isaiah 53:5 — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised 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 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…
• 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…
• Jeremiah 44:10 — They are not humbled 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.