To beat
דָּפַקStrong’s H1849daphaq (da-phaq)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Daphaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “people will drive hard them”, “beating violently” and “knocking”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.”
Meaning
- To beat, knock(Qal) · (Hithpael) to beat violently
How it's translated
- and people will drive hard them 1
- beating violently 1
- knocking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- Song of Solomon 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 19:22Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
- Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּפַק daphaq · to beat
1) to beat, knock 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat, drive severely 1a2) to knock 1b) (Hithpael) to beat violently
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.]
- 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
- To strike an instrument of music; to play on, as a drum.
- To break, bruise, comminute, or pulverize by beating or pounding, as pepper or spices. Exodus 30:36
- 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”
- To strike bushes, to shake by beating, or to make a noise to rouse game.
- To thresh; to force out corn from the husk by blows.
- To break, mix or agitate by beating; as, to beat an egg with any other thing.
- To dash or strike, as water; to strike or brush, as wind.
- To tread, as a path.
- To overcome in a battle, contest or strife; to vanquish or conquer; as, one beats another at play.
- 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.
- To dash with force, as a storm, flood, passion, etc.; as, the tempest beats against the house.
- To knock at a door. Judges 19:22
- To fluctuate; to be in agitation.
BEAT, noun
A stroke; a striking; a blow, whether with the hand, or with a weapon.
- A pulsation; as the beat of the pulse.
- The rise or fall of the hand or foot, in regulating the divisions of time in music.
- 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.