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Hebrew verb · H1854

דָּקַק

daqaqdaw-kak'

to crush

13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: dâqaq

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1854is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1854

to crush (or intransitively) crumble

The King James renders it: beat in pieces (small), bruise, make dust, (into) [idiom] powder, (be, very) small, stamp (small).

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

daqaq is rendered "to crush". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Three of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:36Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

Exodus 30:36הָדֵק֒

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in seven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he crushed2
  • it was fine2
  • and he pulverized1
  • and you will crush1
  • finely pulverize1
  • he crushed1
  • he crushes it1
  • I pulverized them1
  • it is crushed1
  • so you may crush1
  • to pulverize1

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.

דָּקַרdaqarto pierceUses11

All 13, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • אֲדִקֵּ֖ם1
  • דַּ֖ק1
  • דָּ֑ק1
  • הֵדַ֥ק1
  • הָדֵק֒1
  • וְהֵדַ֔ק1
  • וַהֲדִקּ֖וֹת1
  • וַיָּ֣דֶק1
  • וַיָּ֕דֶק1
  • וְתָדֹ֔ק1
  • יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃1
  • יוּדָ֔ק1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhw3ms2Hc/Vhw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Vhp3ms
  • Hc/Vhq2fs1Hc/Vhq2fs
  • HC/Vqu2ms1HC/Vqu2ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HVhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
  • verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVHi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms/Sp3ms

Exodus

two uses
  • Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

    Exodus 30:36

    • הָדֵק֒hadekverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: finely pulverize
  • Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

    Exodus 32:20

    • דָּ֑קdakverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was fine

Deuteronomy

one use
  • And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    • דַּ֖קdakverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was fine

2 Samuel

one use
  • I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

    2 Samuel 22:43

    • אֲדִקֵּ֖םʾadikemverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I pulverized them

2 Kings

two uses
  • He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

    2 Kings 23:6

    • וַיָּ֣דֶקvaiyadekHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he crushed
  • He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

    2 Kings 23:15

    • הֵדַ֥קhedakverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he crushed

2 Chronicles

three uses
  • King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    2 Chronicles 15:16

    • וַיָּ֕דֶקvaiyadekHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he crushed
  • Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    2 Chronicles 34:4

    • וְהֵדַ֔קvehedakconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he pulverized
  • He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 34:7

    • לְהֵדַ֔קlehedakpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to pulverize

Isaiah

three uses
  • Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

    Isaiah 28:28

    • יוּדָ֔קyudakverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is crushed
    • יְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃yedukkenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he crushes it
  • Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

    Isaiah 41:15

    • וְתָדֹ֔קvetadokHC/Vqu2mstagged: so you may crush

Micah

one use
  • Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

    Micah 4:13

    • וַהֲדִקּ֖וֹתvahadikotHc/Vhq2fstagged: and you will crush

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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