דּוּךְ
to pound
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H1743 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to pound” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb דוך (dûwk). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Numbers, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Numbers 11:8. From the same root come מדכה. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1743 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Or beat 1×
- American Standard Version: Or beat 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Crushed it 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Crushed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1743 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1743 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1743 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1743 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to pound, beat (in mortar)
Word origin
[ דּוּךְ ] vb. pound, beat (in mortar) Nu 11:8
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דּוּךְ I
- (b. h.)
- 1. to pound, break. Y. Bets. I, 60ᵈ top ויָדוֹךְ וכ׳ but why should he not pound a day before?—Part. pass. דָּךְ, v. דַּךְ.
- 2. to designate, mark off, v. דּוּךְ II. [Gen. R. s. 5, v. דּוּךְ III.]
- to be pounded, crushed. Bets. I, 7 נִדּוֹכִין כדרכן are pounded (on Holy Days) in their usual way. Ib. 14ᵃ לָדוֹכָהּ וכ׳ as to pounding it (salt) alone. Yoma 75ᵃ דבר שנ׳ וכ׳ something which is pounded in the mortar (spices); a. fr.
- , part. pass. מְדוּכָּךְ crushed. Yalk. Ps. 848 מְדוּכָּכִים אנו we are crushed (Gen. R. s. 5 מדוכנין, v. דָּכַן).
דּוּךְ
- Part. דָּאִיךְ, דָּאֵיךְ. Targ. O. Num. XI, 8. Bets. 14ᵃ דּוֹךְ, v. infra.
- same. Bets. 14ᵃ כי דַיְיכַת וכ׳ ed. (Ms. M. דייקת … דוק) when thou poundest (on a Holy Day), bend the mortar sideways and pound.
- (cmp. דעך) to extinguish. Kidd. 81ᵃ אתו כ"ע לַאֲדוּכֵיה Ar. s. v. אדך (missing in ed.) people came to put the fire out.
דּוּךְ II
- , m. (cmp. דֵּךְ; Assyr. דכי to muster, Schr. KAT p. 2099) [marked off, pointed out,] place, stand, hall. Targ. I Kings XIV, 28 (ed. Lag. דובא, some ed. רובא, corr. acc.); Targ. II Chr. XII, 11 (h. text תָּא).—Ber. 18ᵇ. Ib. 42ᵇ. v. דּוּכְתָּא.
דּוּךְ III
- (v. preced.) leader, chief commander, only in דּוּךְ דּוּכָנִין (an adaptation of dux ducum, δώξ δωκῶν, v. Du Cange s. v.) the leader of the services of the Levites, v. דּוּכָן. Y. Sabb. X, 12ᶜ; Num. R. s. 7 (rendering of נשיא נשיאי Num. III, 32). Num. R. s. 4, end [read:] אלעזר היה דוך דוכנין וכ׳ Eleazar was chief commander, prince over princes; cmp. דּוּכּוֹס.—*Pl. דּוּכִים. Gen. R. s. 5 (play on ד̇כ̇י̇ם̇, Ps. XCIII, 3) (‘the rivers lift up their voices’, saying to the waves of the Sea) דּוֹּכִֹיֹםֹ קבלונו ye leaders, receive us; [Yalk. Ps. 848 דַּכִּים אנו we are crushed]. e.g. Numbers 3:32
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1743, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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