To shatter
דּוּקStrong’s H1854duq
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Duq is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was fine”, “crushed” and “finely”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.”
Meaning
- To be shattered, fall to pieces(P'al) to break in pieces
How it's translated
- it was fine 2
- and he crushed 2
- finely 1
- i pulverized them 1
- he crushed 1
- and he pulverized 1
- to pulverize 1
- it is crushed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Exodus 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 32:20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
- Deuteronomy 9:21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
- 2 Samuel 22:43Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
- 2 Kings 23:6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
- 2 Kings 23:15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
Hebrew dictionary
דּוּק duq · to shatter
1) to be shattered, fall to pieces 1a) (P'al) to break in pieces
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shatter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAT'TER, verb transitive
- To braek at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, rend or part by violence into fragments; as, explosion shatters a rock or bomb; lightning shatters the sturdy oak; steam shatters a boiler; a monarchy is shattered by revolt.
- To rend; to crack; to split; to rive into splinters.
- To dissapate; to make incapable of close and continued application; as a man of shattered humor.
- To disorder; to derange; to render delirious; as, to shatter teh brain, the man seems to be shattered in his intellect.
All definitions and other forms of “shatter”
SHAT'TER, verb intransitive
To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
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.