דָּקַרdâqar
pierce, pierce through
Pronunciation: daw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1856
Meanings
Qal: pierce, run through (Zechariah 12:10; 1 Samuel 31:4; Zechariah 13:3)
Niph`al: be pierced through, slain (Isaiah 13:15)
Pu`al: pierced, riddled, (i.e. desperately wounded) (Jeremiah 37:10; Jeremiah 51:4; Lamentations 4:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 25:8 and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped,
- Judges 9:54 He quickly said to his young armor bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me! Don’t let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!” So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.
- 1 Samuel 31:4 Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- 1 Chronicles 10:4 Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- Isaiah 13:15 Anyone who is captured will be cut down— run through with a sword.
- Jeremiah 37:10 Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents and burn this city to the ground!”
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).