Daka means “bruise” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1792 — entryphao (“sporting selves”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1792 דָּכָא (daka') is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. daka' (daw-kaw') v. 1. to crumble 2. transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively) It has 18 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include pieces, crushed, destroy, destroyed, and oppress. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
daka' (daw-kaw') v. 1. to crumble 2. transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] KJV: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite. Compare: H1794
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to crush
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render daka', taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1792.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1792, grouped by book.
Daka (Strong's H1792) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bruise". daka' (daw-kaw') v. 1. to crumble 2. transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H1792 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1792 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pieces, crushed, destroy, destroyed, oppress, and beat. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.