Strong’s H1794 · Hebrew
דָּכָה
dâkâh · daw-kaw'
Origin a primitive root (compare דַּךְ (H1790), דָּכָא (H1792));
Meaning to collapse (phys. or mentally)
In the King James Version break (sore), contrite, crouch.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Psalms 10:10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
- Psalms 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
- Psalms 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.