Hebrew verb · H1856
דָּקַר
daqardaw-kar'
to pierce
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dâqar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1856is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1856
to stab; by analogy, to starve; figuratively, to revile
The King James renders it: pierce, strike (thrust) through, wound.
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
daqar is rendered "to pierce". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 25:8followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
Numbers 25:8וַיִּדְקֹר֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and pierce through me2
- pierced through2
- and he pierced through1
- and he pierced through him1
- and pierced through1
- and they will pierce through him1
- and they will pierce through me1
- he will be pierced through1
- they have pierced through1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּקַק | daqaq | to crush | Uses13 |
All 11, 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
- וְדָקְרֵ֣נִי2
- דָּקָ֑רוּ1
- וּדְקָרֻ֜הוּ1
- וּדְקָרֻ֙נִי֙1
- וַיִּדְקֹר֙1
- וַיִּדְקְרֵ֥הוּ1
- וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים1
- יִדָּקֵ֑ר1
- מְדֻקָּרִ֑ים1
- מְדֻקָּרִ֔ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HC/Vqv2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural2HVPsmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine plural1HC/VPsmpa
- Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp1bs1Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp1bs
- Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
Numbers
one use
followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
- וַיִּדְקֹר֙vaiyidkorHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he pierced through
Judges
one use
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
- וַיִּדְקְרֵ֥הוּvaiyidkerehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he pierced through him
1 Samuel
two uses
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- וְדָקְרֵ֣נִיvedakereniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and pierce through me
- וּדְקָרֻ֙נִי֙udekaruniHc/Vqq3cp/Sp1bstagged: and they will pierce through me
1 Chronicles
one use
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- וְדָקְרֵ֣נִיvedakereniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and pierce through me
Isaiah
one use
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
- יִדָּקֵ֑רyidakerverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be pierced through
Jeremiah
two uses
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
- מְדֻקָּרִ֑יםmedukarimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: pierced through
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
- וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖יםumedukarimconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: and pierced through
Lamentations
one use
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- מְדֻקָּרִ֔יםmedukarimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: pierced through
Zechariah
two uses
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- דָּקָ֑רוּdakaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have pierced through
And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.
- וּדְקָרֻ֜הוּudekaruhuHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3mstagged: and they will pierce through him
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.