דָּקַקdâqaq

crush, pulverise, thresh; be fine

Pronunciation: daw-kak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1854

Meanings

Qal

1. crush (Isaiah 28:28; Isaiah 41:15)

2. be fine (Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 9:21)

Hiph`il: make dust of, pulverize (2 Kings 23:15; 2 Chronicles 34:4; Micah 4:13)

Hoph`al: be crushed (Isaiah 28:28)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 30:36 Grind some of the mixture into a very fine powder and put it in front of the Ark of the Covenant, where I will meet with you in the Tabernacle. You must treat this incense as most holy.
  • Exodus 32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.
  • Deuteronomy 9:21 I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
  • 2 Samuel 22:43 I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trampled them in the gutter like dirt.
  • 2 Kings 23:6 The king removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.
  • 2 Kings 23:15 The king also tore down the altar at Bethel—the pagan shrine that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made when he caused Israel to sin. He burned down the shrine and ground it to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.
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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).