דָּחַק
to crowd
‘to crowd’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1766 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Judges 1 verse
Joel 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.
דחק (dâchaq) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to crowd.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Judges, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Judges 2:18, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1766 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 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 →
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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Thrust 1×, Vexed 1×
- American Standard Version: Thrust 1×, Vexed them 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Afflicted them 1×, Jostle 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Crowd 1×, Does 1×, Oppressors 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1766 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1766 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1766 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1766 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- to thrust, oppress, crowd
- (Qal) to thrust, crowd
Word origin
[ דָּחַק ] vb. thrust, crowd, oppress
— 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.
דֹּוחַק
- (דחק) [pressure;]
- 1. need, distress. Ḥag. 5ᵃ בשעת דּוֹחֲקוֹ just when he needs it (no sooner); Yeb. 63ᵃ (v. Tosaf. a. l.). Ab. II, 3 בשעת דָּחְקוֹ when he is in need (of official protection). Y. Ber. V, 9ᵇ מד׳, v. אַזְכָּרָה.
- 2. crowd, v. דִּיחוּק.
- 3. emergency, v. דְּחָק. [In later Hebr. דּוֹחַק a forced opinion or reply, v. next w.]
דָּחַק
- cmp. preced.) to press, squeeze, crowd, stamp. Pes. 95ᵇ, a. e. דָּחֲקוּ זבין וכ׳ if persons afflicted with … forced their way &c.—Men. 98ᵇ top דּוֹחֲקִין ובולטין וכ׳ pressed against and protruded &c. Ab. II, 15 בעה"ב דוחק the employer (the Lord) presses (urges to work). Ber. 64ᵃ ד׳ את השעה to force time, be importunate, v. דָּחָה. Lev. R. s. 28; Pesik. Haom. p. 70ᵇ; Pesik. R. s. 18; Yalk. Job 998 (ref. to ושאף, Job V, 5) מי ד׳ (ל)(ב)ממונו וכ׳ who trampled upon the wealth of &c.?—Sifra Vayikra Par. 1, ch. II ד׳ להיות מדבר וכ׳ (Yalk. Lev. 430 נדחק) He pressed himself (confined His Presence) between the Cherubim &c.—Part. pass. דָּחוּק pressed, scarce. Ab. Zar. 35ᵇ e.g. Job 5:5
- to be pressed, confined, v. supra.
דְּחַק I
- 1. to push, squeeze &c. Targ. Jud. I, 34; a. fr.
- 2. to impel, hurry, press. Targ. Josh. X, 13 (h. text אוץ). Targ. Y. Deut. XV, 3; a. fr.—M. Kat. 28ᵃ דָּחֲקָא רגליה וכ׳ the foot of Bar Nathan is pressing (his predestined term of office has begun).
- to press (a debtor). Targ. Y. Deut. XV, 2 למְדַחֲקָא (ed. Vien. למדה׳).
- 1. to be pressed, squeeze one’s self. Targ. O. Num. XXII, 25 (Y. אַדְחָקַת, read אִדְּ׳).
- 2. to be distressed. Targ. I Sam. XIII, 6; XIV, 24.
דְּחָק
- (preced.) l) emergency. Nidd. 9ᵇ, a. fr. בשעת הד׳ in a case of emergency.—2) pressure, need, v. דּוֹחַק.
דְּחַק II
- , oppression, distress. Targ. Y. Deut. XXVI, 7 דּחְקָן (O. דּוֹחֲקָנָא).
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 H1766 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/דֹחֲקֵי/הֶֽם | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Judges 2:18 | 1 |
| יִדְחָק֔וּ/ן | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural | Joel 2:8 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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