Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to press, i.e. to pierce, emasculate, handle
KJV Usage: bruised, stuck, be pressed
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָעַךְ (ma.akh) — to bruise. 1) to press, squeeze 1a) (Qal) to be crushed 1b) (Pual) to be handled, be pressed
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Space | verb qal
to thrust, to stick (something into something else) = causative action by which humans press a sharp object into an inanimate object with force so that it will remain stuck there
Impact | verb qal sg
bruised, crushed = state of having been damaged as a result of pressure
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָעַךְ] vb. press, squeeze Qal not to be offered to י׳, reference to emasculation; and his spear pressed (thrust) into the ground
Pu. there were their breasts squeezed
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