דְּחִי
stumbling
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1762 appears — 2 distinct verses 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.
Psalms 2 verses
About this entry
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דחי (dᵉchîy) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “stumbling.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Psalms, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in Psalms 56:13. It clusters with דחה, דחוה and מדחה under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1762 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 2 verses 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 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Falling 2×
- American Standard Version: Falling 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stumbling 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stumbling 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1762 across 2 tagged occurrences — 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.
- a stumbling, falling
Word origin
Derived from דחה (dâchâh) (H1760) — to push.
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.
דחי
- 1. to push away, thrust. Tosef. Yoma IV (III), 14 דְּחָאוֹ ולא מת; Y. ib. VI, 43ᵃ bot. דְּחָייוֹ if the man thrust the goat down the precipice, and it did not die. Snh. 107ᵇ, a. e. תהא שמאל דּוֹחָה וכ׳ let the left hand repel them and the right invite; a. fr.—Transf. ד׳ בקש, or בקנה to dismiss with a vague or paltry reply. Ḥull. 27ᵇ. Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 8; Num. R. s. 19; a. fr.
- 2. to expel. Tosef. Dem. III, 4; Bekh. 31ᵃ; Y. Dem. II, 23ᵃ top, v. חֲבֵירוּת.
- 3. to suspend, make inoperative, supersede. Ohol. VII, 6 אין דּוֹחִין נפש מפני וכ׳ we dare not set aside the regard due to one human life for the sake of saving another human life; Gen. R. s. 94 כך עושין דוחים וכ׳ is it thus one must act? dare you sacrifice one life &c.?—Y. Snh. VIII, 26ᶜ top ד׳ את הספק to disregard the doubt the benefit of which is to be given to the criminal.—Y. Shek. IV, 47ᵈ bot. דָּחִינוּ אותו וכ׳ we postponed it (the fast) to the first day of the week; Meg. 5ᵇ דְחִינוּהוּ; Erub. 41ᵃ דְחִינֻהוּ.—Pes. VI, 1 אלו דברים … דוחין וכ׳ the following performances needed for the Passover offering take precedence of the Sabbath (cause a suspension of the Sabbath laws); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. דָּחוּי a) pushed, hurried. M. Kat. 28ᵃ מיתה דְחוּיָה a hurried death.—b) suspended, superseded. Yoma 7ᵇ, a. fr. טומאה דְּחוּיָה היא וכ׳ the law about levitical purity is only suspended for the sake of an entire community (and its suspension requires atonement), opp. טומאה הותרה the law &c. is inoperative. Zeb. 12ᵃ ד׳ מעיקרו unfit from the start, opp. נראה ונדחה, v. infra.—[Yeb. 80ᵇ; Gitt. 57ᵃ דוחה, v. דִּיהַּ.]
- to be pushed aside, suspended; to give way. Meg. 5ᵇ הואיל ונ׳ יִדָּחֶה the fast being once suspended (on account of the Sabbath), let it remain so (and not be taken up on Sunday). Pes. 66ᵇ איש נ׳ … ואין צבור נִידָּחִין an individual (if unclean on Passover) is suspended (postpones the celebration) until the second Passover (Num. IX, 10 sq.), but not a community. Yoma 64ᵃ בעלי חיים אינן נידחין animals (dedicated for sacrifices) cannot be removed forever from sacred use (as long as the obstacle lies not in their physical unfitness). Ib. נראה ונ׳ once fit and then discarded (on account of a temporary unfitness).—Ber. 64ᵃ כל הנ׳ … שעה נִדֶּחֶת מפניו to him who gives way to time (yielding patiently to circumstances), time will give way, v. דָּחַק. e.g. Numbers 9:10
- 1. to remove hurriedly. M. Kat. 22ᵃ מדְחֶה מיטתו he who is anxious to remove the bier of a relative (hurries the burial).
- 2. to thrust. Arakh. 30ᵇ אַדְחֶה אבן אחר וכ׳ Rashi (ed. אידחה, corrupt. of אֲיַדֶּה; Ar. דְּחֵה imperat. Kal) I will throw a stone after the fallen man (not give the sinner a chance to return). [Naz. 16ᵇ מדחין בה Ar., read with ed. כדהוינן בה.] [Tosef. Toh. VIII, 8 המדחה, v. יָּחַס.]
דְּחִי
- 1. to thrust, push, knock down. Targ. O. Num. XXXV, 20 דְּחָהִי he knocked him down (h. text הדף; Y. דַּחְיֵיה). Targ. Ps. CXVIII, 13; a. e.
- 2. to suspend, supersede &c., v. preced. 3). Zeb. 12ᵇ הוא ד׳ נפשיה בידים he debarred himself from offering (on account of his apostasy). Pes. 69ᵇ אימא לִידְחֵי I might think they take precedence of the Sabbath. Ber. 23ᵃ גברא דְחוּיָא הוא the person was for the time in an unfit condition to pray (and his prayer does not count at all).
- , Pa. דַּחֵי to push aside, drive off. Pes. 57ᵃ דַּחוּיֵי קא מַדְחֵי לן he sends us off (with a vain promise).
- 1. to be thrust down. Targ. Ps. XXXVI, 13 אִידָּחֲיַין Ms. (ed. יִדְחֲיַן); a. e.
- 2. to be superseded, postponed &c. (v. preced. Nif.). Targ. Y. Num. IX, 10.—Zeb. 12ᵇ ממילא אי׳ he was debarred from offering through no fault of his. Ib. גברא אי׳ the person was unfit; a. fr.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H1762 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִ/דֶּֽחִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 116:8 | 1 |
| מִ֫/דֶּ֥חִי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 56:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1762, 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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