דַּכָּא
daka · crushed, contrite
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1793 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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daka (דַּכָּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crushed, contrite”.
Crushed, broken: ground to dust; of a person, one who is broken within.
How to say it
da·ka
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Broken within, humbled.
- Earth ground very fine.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- crushed ×2
- dust ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 34:18
Near is YHWH to the broken in heart, and the crushed in spirit he saves.
- Psalms 90:3
You turn back the mortal to dust, and say, “Return, human beings.”
- Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the High and Lifted Up One, who inhabits eternity, and Holy is his name: “In the high and holy place I dwell, and with the crushed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the crushed.