דֵּךְ
dêk · dake
this
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) or דָּךְ; (Aramaic), prolonged from H1668 (דָּא);
this
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: the same, this.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › the open hand that covers
The doorway, the way in of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דֵּךְ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- this5 · 38%
- that this2 · 15%
- of this2 · 15%
- cause was this1 · 8%
- and that this1 · 8%
- and this1 · 8%
- the same1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
- Ezra13
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.