To crush
דָּכָהStrong’s H1794dakhah (da-khah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “is crushed”, “am crushed” and “have crushed us”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.”
Meaning
- To crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken(Qal) to be crushed, collapse · (Niphal) to be crushed, be contrite, be broken · (Piel)
How it's translated
- he is crushed 1
- and i am crushed 1
- you have crushed us 1
- you have crushed 1
- and crushed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
- Psalms 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּכָה dakhah · to crush
1) to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken 1a) (Qal) to be crushed, collapse 1b)(Niphal) to be crushed, be contrite, be broken 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to crush down 1c2) to crush to pieces
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.