# דָּכָא (dakha)

Israeli respelling: da-kha. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1792. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/dakha-h1792

## Occurrences

- [Job 4:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/19) — How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- [Job 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/4) — His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- [Job 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/9) — Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- [Job 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/2) — How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
- [Job 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/9) — Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- [Job 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/25) — Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- [Psalms 72:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/72/4) — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
- [Psalms 89:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/10) — Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
- [Psalms 94:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/5) — They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
- [Psalms 143:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/3) — For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have…
- [Proverbs 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/22) — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- [Isaiah 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/3/15) — What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- [Isaiah 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/10) — And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
- [Isaiah 53:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/5) — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stri…
- [Isaiah 53:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/10) — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,…
- [Isaiah 57:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/15) — For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that…
- [Jeremiah 44:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/10) — They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and befo…
- [Lamentations 3:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/34) — To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,