דַּק
daq · dak
crushed, i.e. (by implication) small or thin
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1854 (דָּקַק);
crushed, i.e. (by implication) small or thin
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: dwarf, lean(-fleshed), very little thing, small, thin.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The doorway, the way in of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דַּק 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
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thin3 · 21%
- and leanfleshed2 · 14%
- and the seven thin1 · 7%
- and the thin1 · 7%
- there lay a small1 · 7%
- as small1 · 7%
- beaten small1 · 7%
- or a dwarf1 · 7%
- small1 · 7%
- shall be like small1 · 7%
- as a very little thing1 · 7%
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.