To crush
דָּכָאStrong’s H1792dakah (da-kah)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dakah is the Hebrew word usually translated “so they may be crushed”, “crush” and “crushed”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”
Meaning
- To crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken(Niphal) · (Piel) to crush · (Pual) · (Hithpael) to allow oneself to be crushed
How it's translated
- so they may be crushed 2
- you crush 2
- crushed 2
- people crush them 1
- and may he crush me 1
- and will you crush me 1
- it has been crushed 1
- so he may crush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 6
- Isaiah 5
- Psalms 4
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- Job 6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
- Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 34:25Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- Psalms 72:4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּכָא dakah · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRUSH, verb transitive
- To press and bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to force a thing out of its natural shape; to bruise by pressure.
- To press with violence; to force together into a mass.
- To overwhelm by pressure; to beat or force down, by an incumbent weight, with breaking or bruising; as, the man was crushed by the fall of a tree.“Who are crushed before the moth” Job 4:19
- To overwhelm by power; to subdue; to conquer beyond resistance; as, to crush ones enemies; to crush a rebellion.
All definitions and other forms of “crush”
- To oppress grievously.“Thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always” Deuteronomy 28:33
- To bruise and break into fine particles by beating or grinding; to comminute.
CRUSH, verb intransitive
To be pressed into a smaller compass by external weight or force.
CRUSH, noun
A violent collision, or rushing together, which breaks or bruises the bodies; or a fall that breaks or bruises into a confused mass; as the crush of a large tree, or of a building.
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.