דָּפַקdâphaq

beat, knock

Pronunciation: daw-fak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1849

Meanings

Qal: beat (in driving, drive severely or cruelly); Participle דּוֺפֵק Song 5:2 absolute knocking (at door). (Genesis 33:13; Song of Solomon 5:2)

Hithpa`el: beat violently (beat themselves tired) (Judges 19:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 33:13 But Jacob replied, “You can see, my lord, that some of the children are very young, and the flocks and herds have their young, too. If they are driven too hard, even for one day, all the animals could die.
  • Judges 19:22 While they were enjoying themselves, a crowd of troublemakers from the town surrounded the house. They began beating at the door and shouting to the old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you so we can have sex with him.”
  • Song of Solomon 5:2 I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling: “Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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).