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To beat

דּוּךְStrong’s H1743

dukh

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Dukh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pounded”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.”
Numbers 11:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to pound, beat (in mortar)
How it's translated
  • they pounded 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    דּוּךְ dukh · to beat

    (Qal) to pound, beat (in mortar)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “beat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BEAT, verb transitive

    preterit tense beat; participle passive beat beaten. [Latin batuo. See Abate.]

    1. To strike repeatedly; to lay on repeated blows, with a stick, with the hand or fist, or with any instrument, and for any cause, just or unjust, or for punishment. Luke 12:45Deuteronomy 25:3
    2. To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
    3. To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
    4. To extend by beating, as gold or other malleable substance; or to hammer into any form; to forge. Exodus 39:3
    All definitions and other forms of “beat”
    1. To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
    2. To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
    3. To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
    4. To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
    5. To tread, as a path.
    6. To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
    7. To harass; to exercise severely; to overlabor; as, to beat the brains about logic.

    BEAT, verb intransitive

    To more with pulsation, as the pulse beats; or to throb, as the heart beats.

    1. To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
    2. To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
    3. To fluctuate; to be in agitation.

    BEAT, noun

    A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.

    1. A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
    2. The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
    3. A transient grace-note in music, struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.