dakar · pierce, thrust through

What it means

dakar (דָּקַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pierce, thrust through”.

Pierce: wound by driving in a spear or a sword.

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 stab through with sword or spear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pierced ×5
• run me through ×3
• ran him through ×1
• will pierce him ×1
• wounded ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Zechariah×2

• Numbers 25:8

  He went after the man of Israel into the alcove and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through her belly. And the plague was held back from the sons of Israel.

• Judges 9:54

  He called at once to the young man who carried his weapons and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his young man ran him through, and he died.

• 1 Samuel 31:4

  Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and run me through and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• 1 Chronicles 10:4

  And Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• Isaiah 13:15

  Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is caught will fall by the sword.

• Jeremiah 37:10

  For even if you struck down the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained among them wounded men, each in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.”

• Jeremiah 51:4

  And the slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those pierced through in her streets.

• Lamentations 4:9

  Better off were those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger, for they waste away, pierced through for want of the produce of the field.

• Zechariah 12:10

  And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit of favor and of supplications; and they will look to me, whom they have pierced; and they will lament over him like the lament over the only one, and grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over the firstborn.

• Zechariah 13:3

  And it will happen that if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken a lie in the name of YHWH’; and his father and his mother who begot him will pierce him when he prophesies.

And 1 more times.