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title: דּוּךְ — pound · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּךְ (1743), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: pound. BDB 1906: vb. pound, beat. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּךְ

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«דּוּךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pound** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1743 · **BDB:** דּוּךְ

### Glosses

they.pounded (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pound, beat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pound, beat (in mortar) (NH \& Aramaic id., Arabic دَاكَ; cf. also Assyrian dâku, kill COTGloss.).— Pf. 3 pl. דָּכוּ֨ בַּמְּדֹכָה (milraʿ) Nu 11:8 (‖ טָֽחֲנוּ בָרֵחַיִם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 11:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.8/)

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שָׁטוּ֩ הָעָ֨ם וְלָֽקְט֜וּ וְטָחֲנ֣וּ בָרֵחַ֗יִם א֤וֹ דָכוּ֙ בַּמְּדֹכָ֔ה וּבִשְּׁלוּ֙ בַּפָּר֔וּר וְעָשׂ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ עֻג֑וֹת וְהָיָ֣ה טַעְמ֔וֹ כְּטַ֖עַם לְשַׁ֥ד הַשָּֽׁמֶן׃

*Word for word:* they.went.about the people and they.gathered and they.ground in (the) hand-mill or they.pounded in (the) mortar and they.boiled in (the) pot and they.made it bread.cakes and it.was taste its like the.taste of.(the).cake of.(the) oil

*JPS 1917:* The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil.

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