# H1792 דָּכָא

דָּכָא (dâkâʼ), Strong’s H1792: to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively) KJV: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress…. Occurs 18…

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*dâkâʼ* — to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)

KJV: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress…

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [דָּכָא] vb. crush, poet. not in Qal;
- Niph. crushed, fig. = contrite ones
- Pi. crush
- Pu. crushed, broken in pieces, shattered
- Hithp. crushed

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/3?v=15) — What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, GOD of Hosts.
- [Isaiah 19:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=10) — The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
- [Isaiah 53:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=5) — But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was…
- [Isaiah 53:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=10) — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will…
- [Isaiah 57:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=15) — For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with…
- [Jeremiah 44:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/44?v=10) — They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set…
- [Psalms 72:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/72?v=4) — He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
- [Psalms 89:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/89?v=11) — You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
- [Psalms 94:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/94?v=5) — They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
- [Psalms 143:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/143?v=3) — For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those…