Quick Definition
to crush
Strong's Definition
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H1794 (דָּכָה));
KJV Usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
TWOT Reference: 427
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דָּכָא (da.kah) — to crush. 1) to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be crushed 1a2) to be contrite (fig.) 1b) (Piel) to crush 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be crushed, be shattered 1c2) to be made contrite 1d) (Hithpael) to allow oneself to be crushed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · דַּכָּא
Impact | verb pi, verb pu'al
to crush = causative action by which an object is deformed or pulverized by exerting heavy pressure on it
Dead | verb pi, verb pu'al, verb hit | ≈ בצע · חלל
to crush literally: to crush; hence: = causative action by which a deity inflicts deadly wounds on a human being or animal ◄ as if crushing that person with a heavy object
Insignificant | verb nif, verb pu'al
to crush, to make humble, to make contrite literally: to crush; hence: = causative action by which someone causes someone else to feel humble and remorseful ◄ by causing that person to suffer harm and humiliation
Unsafe | verb pi, verb pu'al, verb hit | ≈ טחן · יגה · ענה
to crush literally: to crush; hence: = causative action by which humans cause other humans to suffer harm and humiliation, ◄ which feels as if one has been crushed with a heavy object
JOB 5:4 · JOB 19:2 · JOB 34:25 · PSA 94:5 · PRO 22:22 · ISA 3:15 · ISA 19:10 · LAM 3:34
Unsafe | verb pi
Collocation: דכא חַיָּה
to crush (someone's) life literally: to crush (someone's) life; hence: = causative action by which someone makes someone else's life miserable ◄ as if it were crushed with a heavy object
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[דָּכָא] vb. crush, poet. not in Qal;Niph. crushed, fig. = contrite ones
Pi. crush
Pu. crushed, broken in pieces, shattered
Hithp. crushed
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