Definition

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

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H1794 (דָּכָה));

Where the KJV renders it

• beat to pieces
• break (in pieces)
• bruise
• contrite
• crush
• destroy
• humble
• oppress
• smite

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.