Lexicon
דָּכָה
da.khah
H1794
H:V Hebrew

to crush

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da.khah denotes crushing that brings the helpless down, with the remaining contexts too loosely translated to isolate further nuance.

The clearest attested use depicts the helpless being crushed and collapsing; the same verb also appears in first-person and participial forms within prayer and worship contexts, though the supplied translation does not consistently isolate its contribution there.

Senses in use

  1. Crushing that brings a person low · dominant

    In Psalm 10:10, the forms occur in the statement that the helpless are crushed, collapse, and fall under mighty ones; the APB renders the verse, "The helpless are crushed and collapse; they fall under his mighty ones." The Niphal forms in Psalm 38:9 and Psalm 51:19 and the Piel forms in Psalm 44:20 and Psalm 51:10 show the verb in prayer-related contexts, but their specific contribution cannot be isolated from the supplied APB wording.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "crushed" and "collapse" in Psalm 10:10. In the other supplied verses, its loose wording does not clearly identify an English rendering for this verb, so their precise translation treatment remains uncertain.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture