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Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H1855

דְּקַק

deqaqdek-ak'

to break up

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

Concordance spelling: dᵉqaq

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1855is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 10
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1855

to crumble or (trans.) crush

The King James renders it: break to pieces.

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

deqaq is rendered "to break up". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:34As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
  • The Greek text spells it ten different ways.

The first use

As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

Daniel 2:34וְהַדֵּ֖קֶת

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

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's ten uses are in Daniel.

The other 38 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 it shattered2
  • it will shatter2
  • shattering2
  • and it will shatter it1
  • and shattering1
  • they shattered1
  • they were shattered1

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.

All 10, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

10 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

  • דָּ֣קוּ1
  • הַדִּֽקוּ׃1
  • וְהַדֵּ֖קֶת1
  • וְ֠הַדֶּקֶת1
  • וּמַדֱּקָ֔ה1
  • וְתַדְּקִנַּֽהּ׃1
  • מַדֲּקָ֔ה1
  • מְהַדֵּ֤ק1
  • תַּדִּ֥ק1
  • תַּדִּ֤ק1

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2AC/Vhp3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2AVhi3fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular1AC/Vhrfsa
  • AC/Vhu3fs/Sp3fs1AC/Vhu3fs/Sp3fs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVhp3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singular1AVhrfsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1AVhrmsa
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp

Daniel

ten uses
  • As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

    Daniel 2:34

    • וְהַדֵּ֖קֶתvehadeketconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it shattered
  • Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

    Daniel 2:35

    • דָּ֣קוּdakuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were shattered
  • Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

    Daniel 2:40

    • מְהַדֵּ֤קmehadekverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: shattering
    • תַּדִּ֥קtadikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will shatter
  • In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.

    Daniel 2:44

    • תַּדִּ֤קtadikverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will shatter
  • And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

    Daniel 2:45

    • וְ֠הַדֶּקֶתvehadeketconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it shattered
  • At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

    Daniel 6:24

    • הַדִּֽקוּ׃hadikuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they shattered
  • 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.

    Daniel 7:7

    • וּמַדֱּקָ֔הumadekahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: and shattering
  • 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.

    Daniel 7:19

    • מַדֲּקָ֔הmadakahverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: shattering
  • This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

    Daniel 7:23

    • וְתַדְּקִנַּֽהּ׃vetaddekinahAC/Vhu3fs/Sp3fstagged: and it will shatter it

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.

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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