de.qaq describes crushing or breaking entities down, especially images, kingdoms, and what a beast tramples.

The attested use describes forceful crushing or breaking down: a stone strikes and reduces parts of an image, iron-like kingdoms break other kingdoms, and the fourth beast crushes what it devours and tramples. The occurrence in Daniel 6:25 cannot be isolated from the supplied translation.

1. Crushing or breaking down by force · dominant

   In Daniel 2:34 the Hiphil perfect form occurs when the stone strikes the image's iron-and-clay feet; the APB renders the result as “crushed them.” Daniel 2:35 and Daniel 2:40 depict the image's materials being reduced together and iron breaking all things, while Daniel 2:44 and Daniel 7:23 apply the action to kingdoms. In Daniel 7:7 the participial form occurs with the beast's eating and trampling; the APB renders the sequence “eating and crushing.”

   Daniel 2:34Daniel 2:35Daniel 2:40Daniel 2:44Daniel 7:7Daniel 7:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the action with “crushed” or “crushing,” and in Daniel 2:40 also with “shatters” and “break.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, the term's contribution in Daniel 6:25 is not clear from its English rendering.