Hebrew a / h:n-m · H1793
דַּכָּא
dakkadak-kaw'
contrite; dust
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dakkâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1793is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1793
crushed (literally powder, or figuratively, contrite)
The King James renders it: contrite, destruction.
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
dakka is rendered "contrite; dust". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "contrite".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Psalms 34:18דַּכְּאֵי־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: contrite, and dust.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| contriteStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WherePsalms 34:18The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit. |
| dustStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a contrite1
- crushed matter1
- crushed of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| דַּכָּה | dakkah | crushing | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- דַּכָּ֑א1
- דַּכָּא֙1
- דַּכְּאֵי־1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HAampc
- adjective · masculine singular1HAamsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Psalms
two uses
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
- דַּכְּאֵי־dakeei-adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: crushed of
You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- דַּכָּ֑אdaka'noun · masculine singulartagged: crushed matter
Isaiah
one use
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- דַּכָּא֙daka'adjective · masculine singulartagged: a contrite
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.