דָּקַק dâqaq — to crush (or intransitively) crumble
Translated in the KJV as beat in pieces, bruise, make dust, × powder, (be, very) small, stamp.
a primitive root (compare H1915); to crush (or intransitively) crumble.
dâqaq in each stem
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 2Perfect (qatal) 2Infinitive absolute 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive construct 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›