דָּכָאdâkâʼ

crush

Pronunciation: daw-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1792

Meanings

Niph`al: crushed, figurative = contrite ones (Isaiah 57:15)

Pi`el: crush, (figurative) (Psalms 143:3; Psalms 89:11; Psalms 72:4)

Pu`al: crushed (Jeremiah 44:10; Job 22:9; Isaiah 53:5)

Hithpa`el: must let themselves be crushed, i.e. maltreated (Job 5:4; Job 34:25; Proverbs 22:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 18 times in the Bible.

  • Job 4:19 how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
  • Job 5:4 Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
  • Job 6:9 I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
  • Job 19:2 “How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
  • Job 22:9 You must have sent widows away empty-handed and crushed the hopes of orphans.
  • Job 34:25 He knows what they do, and in the night he overturns and destroys them.
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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).