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title: דָּיֵק — bulwark · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּיֵק (1785), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: bulwark. BDB 1906: n.m. bulwark, siege-wall. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּיֵק

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«דָּיֵק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bulwark** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 1785 · **BDB:** דָּיֵק

### Glosses

a.siege-work (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bulwark [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. bulwark, siege-wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bulwark, siege-wall—דָּיֵק 2 K 25:1 + 5 times—בנה ד׳ עליה סביב 2 K 25:1 = Je 52:4; cf. Ez 4:2; 17:17; 21:27 (all ‖ שׁפך סֹלֲלָה); נתן ד׳ על Ez 26:8 (‖ id.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּיֵק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 26:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/)

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בְּנוֹתַ֥יִךְ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה בַּחֶ֣רֶב יַהֲרֹ֑ג וְנָתַ֨ן עָלַ֜יִךְ דָּיֵ֗ק וְשָׁפַ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ סֹֽלְלָ֔ה וְהֵקִ֥ים עָלַ֖יִךְ צִנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* daughters your on the land with the sword he.will.kill and he.will.make on you a.siege-work and he.will.pour.out on you a.mound and he.will.raise.up on you a.body.shield

*JPS 1917:* He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and set up bucklers against thee.

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[Ezekiel 4:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.2/)

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וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֜יהָ מָצ֗וֹר וּבָנִ֤יתָ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ דָּיֵ֔ק וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ סֹֽלְלָ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֧יהָ מַחֲנ֛וֹת וְשִׂים־עָלֶ֥יהָ כָּרִ֖ים סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make on it a.siege and you.will.build on it a.siege-work and you.will.pour.out on it a.mound and you.will.set.up on it armies and set on it battering-rams all.around

*JPS 1917:* and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

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