Lexical Definition

‎דָּכָא‎ dâkâʼ (daw-kaw') to crush ^H:V
a primitive root (compare ‎דָּכָה‎)

beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.

• to crumble
• transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)

1) to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to be crushed
1a2) to be contrite (fig.)
1b) (Piel) to crush
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to be crushed, be shattered
1c2) to be made contrite
1d) (Hithpael) to allow oneself to be crushed

See Greek: ἀδικέω · ἀτιμάζω · καθαιρέω · κακόω · ὀλιγόψυχος · παίω · συντρίβω · ταπεινός · ταπεινόω · ταπεινόω · ταπείνωσις

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎דָּכָא‎] verb crush, poetic (Assyrian dakû, crush, Muss-Arn^{Hebraica. Oct. 1890, 66}) not in Qal; —

Niph`al Participle ‎נִדְכָּאִים‎ Isa 57:15 — crushed, figurative = contrite ones. Pi`el Perfect ‎דִּכָּא‎ Ps 143:3 2 masculine singular ‎דִּכִּאתָ‎ Ps 89:11* Imperfect ‎וִידַכֵּא‎ Ps 72:4 2 masculine singular ‎תְּדַכֵּא‎ Prov 22:22 (juss); ‎יְדַכְּאוּ‎ Ps 94:5, ‎תְּדַכְּאוּ‎ Isa 3:15 suffix ‎וִידַכְּאֵנִי‎ Job 6:9, ‎יְדַכְּאוּם‎ Job 4:19 2 masculine plural ‎וּתְדַכּאוּנַּנִי‎ Job 19:2 (so Baer, see his edition p. 44, compare Norzi); Infinitive ‎לִדַכֵּא‎ Lam 3:34 suffix ‎דַּכְּאוֺ‎ Isa 53:10 — crush, (figurative) with accusative one's life to the earth Ps 143:3, Egypt Ps 89:11* (compare De Che; ‎׳‎‎י‎ subject), servant of Yahweh Isa 53:10 (‎׳‎‎י‎ subject), Job 6:9 ‎׳‎‎וְיֹאֵל אֱלוֺהַּ וִיד‎; oppressor Ps 72:4, God's people Ps 94:5 (|| ‎יְּעַנּוּ‎), Isa 3:15, compare Prov 22:22 illegally in tribunal, Lam 3:34 ‎תחת רגליו‎ ‎׳‎‎ד‎ (in all human oppressor subject); crush me ‎בְּמִלִּים‎ Job 19:2 (Job's friends, subject; || ‎תּוֺגְיוּן נַפְשִׁי‎); never literal, not even Job 4:19 (‎יְדַכְּאוּם‎, with indefinite subject), for suffix reference not to ‎בָּֽתֵּיחֹֿמֶר‎, but rather to ‎שֹׁכְנֵי‎, i.e. men inhabiting the clay houses, bodies, compare Di. Pu`al Perfect ‎דֻּכְּאוּ‎ Jer 44:10 Imperfect ‎יְדֻכָּא‎ Job 22:9 Participle ‎מְדֻכָּא‎ Isa 53:5, ‎מְדֻכָּאִים‎ Isa 19:10 — crushed, broken in pieces, shattered Job 22:9 with object feminine ‎זרועות‎; Isa 19:10 subject ‎שָׁתוֺת‎ (here metaphor. for nobles); figurative of servant of ‎׳‎‎י‎ Isa 53:5 made humble, contrite Jer 44:10. Hithpa`el Imperfect ‎יִדַּכְּאוּ‎ Job 5:4, ‎יִדַּכָּ֑אוּ‎ Job 34:25 — must let themselves be crushed, i.e. maltreated Job 5:4 (in court ‎בשׁער‎, compare Pi`el Prov 22:22); are crushed Job 34:25 (the mighty, by God).

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