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title: דָּחַח — they shall be thrust down · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּחַח (lemma:דָּחַח), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: they shall be thrust down. BDB 1906: vb. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּחַח

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«דָּחַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **they shall be thrust down** — 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:** lemma:דָּחַח · **BDB:** דָּחַח

### Glosses

they.will.be.pushed.down (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

they shall be thrust down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d7_5b7_5d7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d7_5b7_5d7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Impf. 3 mpl. יִדַּ֫חוּ (Köi 377) Je 23:12 they shall be thrust down, fig., of wicked; read perhaps יִדָּח֫וּ, from דחה q.v.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּחַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d7_5b7_5d7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 23:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.23.12/)

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לָכֵן֩ יִֽהְיֶ֨ה דַרְכָּ֜ם לָהֶ֗ם כַּחֲלַקְלַקּוֹת֙ בָּֽאֲפֵלָ֔ה יִדַּ֖חוּ וְנָ֣פְלוּ בָ֑הּ כִּֽי־אָבִ֨יא עֲלֵיהֶ֥ם רָעָ֛ה שְׁנַ֥ת פְּקֻדָּתָ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.will.become path their for them like slippery.places in the darkness they.will.be.pushed.down and they.will.fall on it (dm) I.will.bring on them calamity the.year their.punishment their the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness, they shall be thrust, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

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