דֵּךְ
this
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
- Pronoun
- A word standing in for a noun (“he,” “this,” “who”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular 7 times (54%)
- Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular 6 times (46%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1791 appears — 11 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.
Ezra 11 verses
- Ezra 4:13 דָךְ֙ pron dem fs Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
- Ezra 4:15 דָ֜ךְ דָ֖ךְ pron dem fs pron dem fs that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.
- Ezra 4:16 דָךְ֙ pron dem fs We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion beyond the River.
- Ezra 4:19 דָ֔ךְ pron dem fs I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
- Ezra 4:21 דָךְ֙ pron dem fs Make you now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree shall be made by me.
- Ezra 5:8 דָ֛ךְ pron dem fs Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
- Ezra 5:16 דֵּ֔ךְ pron dem ms Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not completed.
- Ezra 5:17 דֵ֖ךְ pron dem ms Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
- Ezra 6:7 דֵ֑ךְ דֵ֖ךְ pron dem ms pron dem ms let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
- Ezra 6:8 דֵ֑ךְ pron dem ms Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.
- Ezra 6:12 דֵ֖ךְ pron dem ms and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who shall put forth their hand to alter [the same], to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.
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.
“this” is the headline sense of the Hebrew word דך (dêk). It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. With 11 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Ezra 4:13, it enters the text early. Translators differ — “this” in the King James Version, then “that” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1791 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 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: This 11×
- American Standard Version: This 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: This 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 11×, This 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1791 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1791 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1791 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1791 across 13 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.
- this
Word origin
דֵּךְ demonstr.pr.m. this
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דא (dâʼ) (H1668).
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.
דֵּךְ
- (דא with format. ך; cmp. דּוּךְ II) this, that. Ezra V, 16; a. fr. Ib. IV, 13; a. fr.—Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 19 דּיכִּי ed. Berl. (ed. דֵּיכִי). Targ. Jud. VI, 20; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 5; Yalk. Ps. 848; (play on דָּכְיָם, Ps. XCIII, 3) להָדֵךְ ימא unto this sea there; Midr. Till. to Ps. l. c. להדך פלן, expl. לדוכתא פלן. B. Mets. 86ᵃ מרי דיכי the lord of this (breeze) here. e.g. Ezra 5:16
דַּךְ
- crushed, broken; afflicted, contrite. Lev. R. s. 34; Midr. Prov. ch. XXII דך (שהוא) מדוכדך the poor man is called dakh because he is crushed.—Pl. דַּכִּים. Sabb. 104ᵃ, v. דכ׳'ץ. Ib. 105ᵃ, v. נצטד׳'ק. Yalk. Ps. 848, v. דּוּךְ III.
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 8 distinct written forms H1791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| דֵ֖ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 5:17 | 3 |
| דָךְ֙ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 4:13 | 3 |
| דֵ֑ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 6:7 | 2 |
| דָ֔ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 4:19 | 1 |
| דָ֖ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 4:15 | 1 |
| דָ֛ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 5:8 | 1 |
| דָ֜ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Feminine, Singular | Ezra 4:15 | 1 |
| דֵּ֔ךְ | Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular | Ezra 5:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1791, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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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