dacha · crush

What it means

dacha (דָּכָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “crush”.

To crush, to grind, to break in pieces. Said of things that crumble and of people who are oppressed or beaten down.

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 down, oppress the weak.
2. To have one's pride broken and own one's smallness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• crush ×9
• crushed ×8
• humbled themselves ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×6
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1

• Job 4:19

  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth.

• Job 5:4

  His sons are far from salvation; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver.

• Job 6:9

  that Eloah would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off.

• Job 19:2

  “How long will you grieve my soul, and crush me with words?

• Job 22:9

  Widows you sent away empty, and the arms of the orphans were crushed.

• Job 34:25

  Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them at night, and they are crushed.

• Psalms 72:4

  May he judge the afflicted of the people, save the sons of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

• Psalms 89:10

  You crushed Rahab like one pierced; with the arm of your strength you scattered your enemies.

• Psalms 94:5

  Your people, YHWH, they crush, and your inheritance they afflict.

• Psalms 143:3

  For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed to the ground my life; he has made me dwell in dark places like those dead long ago.

• Proverbs 22:22

  Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted in the gate;

• Isaiah 3:15

  What right have you that you crush my people and grind the face of the afflicted? declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 19:10

  And its pillars will be crushed; all who work for wages will be grieved in soul.

• Isaiah 53:5

  But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the correction of our peace was upon him, and by his wound we were healed.

• Isaiah 53:10

  And YHWH was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If he makes his soul a guilt offering, he will see offspring, he will prolong days, and the desire of YHWH will prosper in his hand.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 44:10

  They have not humbled themselves to this day, and they have not feared, and they have not walked in my instruction and in my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

• Lamentations 3:34

  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,