dayek · siege wall

What it means

dayek (דָּיֵק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “siege wall”.

Siege works: the earthwork, walls or towers an army raises around a city to shut it in and attack it (2 Kings 25:1; Ezekiel 4:2; 21:22).

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. Wall or tower built to attack a city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• siege wall ×3
• siege tower ×2
• siege walls are built ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4

• 2 Kings 25:1

  And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; he encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.

• Jeremiah 52:4

  And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; they encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.

• Ezekiel 4:2

  And put a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and heap up a ramp against it, and set camps against it, and place battering rams against it all around.

• Ezekiel 17:17

  And Pharaoh will not with a great army and with a large assembly act for him in the war, when siege ramps are cast up and siege walls are built to cut off many lives.

• Ezekiel 21:22

  In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in murder, to raise the voice with a shout, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege ramp, to build a siege tower.

• Ezekiel 26:8

  Your daughters in the field he will kill by the sword; and he will set against you a siege tower, and heap up against you a siege ramp, and raise against you a large shield.