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Lexicon :: Strong's H1856 - dāqar

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דָּקַר
Transliteration
dāqar
Pronunciation
daw-kar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 449

Strong’s Definitions

דָּקַר dâqar, daw-kar'; a primitive root; to stab; by analogy, to starve; figuratively, to revile:—pierce, strike (thrust) through, wound.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H1856 in the following manner: thrust through (8x), pierced (1x), wounded (1x), stricken through (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H1856 in the following manner: thrust through (8x), pierced (1x), wounded (1x), stricken through (1x).

  1. to pierce, thrust through, pierce through

    1. (Qal) to pierce, run through

    2. (Niphal) to be pierced through

    3. (Pual) pierced, riddled (participle)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
דָּקַר dâqar, daw-kar'; a primitive root; to stab; by analogy, to starve; figuratively, to revile:—pierce, strike (thrust) through, wound.
STRONGS H1856: Abbreviations
† [דָּקַר] verb pierce, pierce through (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic דְּקַר, bdb020101) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural דָּקָ֑רוּ Zechariah 12:10; suffix וּדְקָרֻנִי consecutive 1 Samuel 31:4, וּדְקָרֻהוּ consecutive Zechariah 13:3; Imperfect וַיִּדְקֹר Numbers 25:8, וַיִּדְקְרֵהוּ Judges 9:54 — pierce, run through (always with accusative): as retributive act, Israelite and Midianite woman Numbers 25:8; false prophet Zechariah 13:3; but also as speedy death Judges 9:54 (Abimelech); 1 Samuel 31:4a (Saul) = 1 Chronicles 10:4, also 1 Samuel 31:4b (but strike out Be We after 1 Chronicles 10:4 & so LXX of Lucian (Lag.) 1 Samuel 31:4b), see also Zechariah 12:10 (compare John 19:37).
Niph. Imperfect יִדָּקֵר be pierced through, slain Isaiah 13:15 (in conquest of Babylonian by Medes).
Pu. Participle plural מְדֻקָּרִים pierced, riddled, (i.e. desperately wounded) warriors, Jeremiah 37:10, slain Jeremiah 51:4 (|| חללים); by hunger Lamentations 4:9 (|| חַלְלֵי רָעָב).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

25:8; 25:8

Judges

9:54; 9:54

1 Samuel

31:4; 31:4; 31:4; 31:4

1 Chronicles

10:4; 10:4

Isaiah

13:15

Jeremiah

37:10; 51:4

Lamentations

4:9

Zechariah

12:10; 12:10; 13:3; 13:3

John

19:37

H1856

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1856 matches the Hebrew דָּקַר (dāqar),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 - Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:4 - They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and wounded in her streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:9 - Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:3 - And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
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