To thrust
דָּחָהStrong’s H1760dachah (da-chah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pushing”, “were pushed down” and “pushed down”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.”
Meaning
- To push, thrust, chase, overflow, totter, sore, drive away or out, be outcast, be cast down(Qal) to push, push violently · (Niphal) to be thrust, be cast down · (Pual) to be thrust down
- (Niphal) to be thrust down
How it's translated
- pushing 1
- they were pushed down 1
- pushed down 1
- certainly 1
- you pushed me 1
- to trip up 1
- he is pushed down 1
- they will be pushed down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 36:12There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
- Psalms 62:3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- Psalms 118:13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
- Psalms 140:4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Jeremiah 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּחָה dachah · to thrust
1) to push, thrust, chase, overflow, totter, sore, drive away or out, be outcast, be cast down 1a) (Qal) to push, push violently 1b) (Niphal) to be thrust, be cast down 1c) (Pual) to be thrust down
דָּחַח dachach · to thrust
(Niphal) to be thrust down A grammatical form of da.chah (דָּחָה "to thrust" H1760A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thrust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THRUST, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive thrust [Latin trudo, trusum, trusito.]
- To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.“Neither shall one thrust another” Joel 2:8
- To drive; to force; to impel.“THRUST in thy sickle and reap” Revelation 14:15
All definitions and other forms of “thrust”
THRUST, verb intransitive
To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
- To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
- To intrude.
- To push forward; to come with force; to press on.
THRUST, noun
A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing.
- Attack; assault.
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.