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title: דָּחַק — thrust · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּחַק (1766), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: thrust. BDB 1906: vb. thrust, crowd, oppress. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּחַק

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«דָּחַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thrust** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1766 · **BDB:** דָּחַק

### Glosses

\[those (1); they (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thrust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1766/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. thrust, crowd, oppress [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1766/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. thrust, crowd, oppress (NH id., Arabic دَحَقَ drive away, remove, Aramaic דְּחַק, ܕܚܰܩ )— Impf. יִדְחָק֔וּן thrust, crowd, of locusts in swarm Jo 2:8; Pt. act. pl. sf. לֹחֲצֵיהֶם וְדֹחֲקִיהֶם Ju 2:18 (because of) them that maltreated and oppressed them.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּחַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1766/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 2:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.2.8/)

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וְאִ֤ישׁ אָחִיו֙ לֹ֣א יִדְחָק֔וּן גֶּ֥בֶר בִּמְסִלָּת֖וֹ יֵֽלֵכ֑וּן וּבְעַ֥ד הַשֶּׁ֛לַח יִפֹּ֖לוּ לֹ֥א יִבְצָֽעוּ׃

*Word for word:* and each brother its not they thrust a.man on track its they go and through the weapon\[s\] they.fall not they.stop

*JPS 1917:* Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm.

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[Judges 2:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.18/)

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וְכִֽי־הֵקִ֨ים יְהוָ֥ה ׀ לָהֶם֮ שֹֽׁפְטִים֒ וְהָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ עִם־הַשֹּׁפֵ֔ט וְהֽוֹשִׁיעָם֙ מִיַּ֣ד אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י הַשּׁוֹפֵ֑ט כִּֽי־יִנָּחֵ֤ם יְהוָה֙ מִנַּֽאֲקָתָ֔ם מִפְּנֵ֥י לֹחֲצֵיהֶ֖ם וְדֹחֲקֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.raised.up Yahweh for them judges and he.was Yahweh with the judge and he delivered.them from the.hand their.enemies their all the.days of the.judge (dm) he.had.compassion Yahweh from groaning their because of \[those who\].oppressed.them and \[those who\].oppressed.them

*JPS 1917:* And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented the LORD because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them.

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