דָּחָהdâchâh

דָּחָה: push, thrust

Pronunciation: daw-khaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1760

Meanings

Qal: push (Psalms 118:13; Psalms 140:5; Psalms 35:5)

Niph`al: be thrust or cast down (Proverbs 14:32; Jeremiah 23:12; Isaiah 11:12)

Pu`al: plural, they are thrust down (Psalms 36:13)

דָּחַח: Niph`al: they shall be thrust down, figurative, of wicked; read perhaps יִדָּח֫וּ, from דחה (Jeremiah 23:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 35:5 Blow them away like chaff in the wind— a wind sent by the angel of the Lord.
  • Psalms 36:12 Look! Those who do evil have fallen! They are thrown down, never to rise again.
  • Psalms 62:3 So many enemies against one man— all of them trying to kill me. To them I’m just a broken-down wall or a tottering fence.
  • Psalms 118:13 My enemies did their best to kill me, but the Lord rescued me.
  • Psalms 140:4 O Lord, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me.
  • Proverbs 14:32 The wicked are crushed by disaster, but the godly have a refuge when they die.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).