dakak · crush fine

What it means

dakak (דָּקַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crush fine”.

Crush until very fine.

How to say it

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

1. To grind something to powder.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dust ×3
• ground it ×3
• crushed ×2
• crush it ×1
• crush them ×1
• it was fine ×1
• very fine ×1
• you will crush ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Isaiah×3
• Micah×1

• Exodus 30:36

  You shall grind some of it very fine and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you; most holy it shall be to you.

• Exodus 32:20

  And he took the calf that they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it until it was fine dust, and scattered it on the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

• Deuteronomy 9:21

  And your sin that you had made, the calf, I took and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

• 2 Samuel 22:43

  I ground them like the dust of the earth; like the mud of the streets I crushed them, I stamped them down.

• 2 Kings 23:6

  He brought out the Asherah from the house of YHWH, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat made, who made Israel sin, even that altar and the high place he tore down; and he burned the high place, ground it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

• 2 Chronicles 15:16

  And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being lady, because she had made for Asherah a horrid image; and Asa cut down her horrid image, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread grain is crushed, but he does not keep threshing it forever; and though he drives the wheel of his cart and his horses, he does not crush it.

• Isaiah 41:15

  Look, I have made you into a threshing sledge, sharp, new, double-edged; you will thresh mountains and crush them, and the hills like chaff you will make.

• Micah 4:13

  “Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make iron, and your hoofs I will make bronze, and you will crush many peoples; and you will devote completely to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”

And 1 more times.