דָּקַק
dâqaq · daw-kak'
to crush (or intransitively) crumble
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H1915 (הָדַךְ)lemma הָדךְ missing vowel, corrected to הָדַךְ);
to crush (or intransitively) crumble
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beat in pieces (small), bruise, make dust, (into) [idiom] powder, (be, very) small, stamp (small).
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
- 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 › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The doorway, the way in of what comes behind, the returning cycle of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּקַק 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 · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and stamped2 · 15%
- some of it very small1 · 8%
- it to powder1 · 8%
- even until it was as small1 · 8%
- i did stamp1 · 8%
- and stamped it small1 · 8%
- and made dust1 · 8%
- into powder1 · 8%
- corn is bruised1 · 8%
- nor bruise1 · 8%
- and beat them small1 · 8%
- and thou shalt beat in pieces1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
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.