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title: דָּפַק — beat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּפַק (1849), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: beat. BDB 1906: vb. beat, knock. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּפַק

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«דָּפַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beat** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 1849 · **BDB:** דָּפַק

### Glosses

\[is\].knocking (1); beating.violently (1); people (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. beat, knock [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. beat, knock (Arabic دَفَقَ pour out, also drive (beasts))— Perf. 3 mpl. sf. וּדְפָקוּם consec. Gn 33:13, but read 1 s. sf. וּדְפַקְתִּים 𝔊 𝔖 Sam Di beat (in driving, drive severely or cruelly); Pt. דּוֹפֵק Ct 5:2 abs. knocking (at door). Pt. מִתְדַּפְּקִים עַל־הַדָּ֑לֶת Ju 19:22 beat violently (beat themselves tired) against the door.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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 «דָּפַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 33:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.13/)

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֲדֹנִ֤י יֹדֵ֙עַ֙ כִּֽי־הַיְלָדִ֣ים רַכִּ֔ים וְהַצֹּ֥אן וְהַבָּקָ֖ר עָל֣וֹת עָלָ֑י וּדְפָקוּם֙ י֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד וָמֵ֖תוּ כָּל־הַצֹּֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him lord my \[is\].knowing (dm).that the children \[are\].weak and the sheep and the cattle \[are\].nursing with me and people will.drive.them.hard a.day one and they.will.die all the flock

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

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[Song of Songs 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.2/)

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אֲנִ֥י יְשֵׁנָ֖ה וְלִבִּ֣י עֵ֑ר ק֣וֹל ׀ דּוֹדִ֣י דוֹפֵ֗ק פִּתְחִי־לִ֞י אֲחֹתִ֤י רַעְיָתִי֙ יוֹנָתִ֣י תַמָּתִ֔י שֶׁרֹּאשִׁי֙ נִמְלָא־טָ֔ל קְוֻּצּוֹתַ֖ירְסִ֥יסֵי לָֽיְלָה׃

*Word for word:* I \[was\].sleeping and heart my \[was\].awake the.sound my.lover my \[is\].knocking open to me my.sister my friend my dove my my.perfect \[one\] that head my \[is\].filled dew locks my dewdrops of.night

*JPS 1917:* I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.'

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