Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H1763
דְּחַל
dechaldeh-khal'
to fear
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dᵉchal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1763is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1763
to slink, i.e. (by implication) to fear, or (causatively) be formidable
The King James renders it: make afraid, dreadful, fear, terrible.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dechal is rendered "to fear". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Six of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:31As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
Daniel 2:31דְּחִֽיל׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's six uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and fearing2
- terrible2
- and it made afraid me1
- fearful1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דְּחִי | dechi | falling | Uses2 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דְּחִֽיל׃1
- דְּחִילָה֩1
- דְּחִילָ֣ה1
- וְדָחֲלִ֖ין1
- וְדָ֣חֲלִ֔ין1
- וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִי1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2AC/Vqrmpa
- verb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singular2AVQrfsa
- AC/Vpu3ms/Sp1bs1AC/Vpu3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · passive (qal passive), participle · masculine singular1AVQrmsa
Daniel
six uses
As you, O king, were watching, a great statue appeared. A great and dazzling statue stood before you, and its form was awesome.
- דְּחִֽיל׃dechilverb · passive (qal passive), participle · masculine singulartagged: terrible
I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
- וִֽידַחֲלִנַּ֑נִיvidachalinaniAC/Vpu3ms/Sp1bstagged: and it made afraid me
Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished.
- וְדָחֲלִ֖יןvedachalinconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and fearing
I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.
- וְדָ֣חֲלִ֔יןvedachalinconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and fearing
After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
- דְּחִילָה֩dechilahverb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singulartagged: fearful
Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
- דְּחִילָ֣הdechilahverb · passive (qal passive), participle · feminine singulartagged: terrible
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.