שָׁחַק
shachak · beat fine
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7833 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shachak (שָׁחַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beat fine”.
Grind, crush to powder.
How to say it
sha·chak
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
- Reduce to powder; wear down little by little.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- I ground them ×2
- You shall grind ×1
- wears away ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 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.
- 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.
- Job 14:19
water wears away stones; its floods sweep away the dust of the earth; and the hope of a mortal you make perish.
- Psalms 18:42
I ground them like dust before the wind; like the mud of the streets I flung them out.