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# דּוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1743

**pound** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pound [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דּוּךְ: vb. pound, beat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pound, beat (in mortar) (NH & Aramaic id., Arabic دَاكَ; cf. also Assyrian dâku, kill COTGloss.).— Pf. 3 pl. דָּכוּ֨ בַּמְּדֹכָה (milraʿ) Nu 11:8 (‖ טָֽחֲנוּ בָרֵחַיִם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they pounded (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.8/#tree)

שָׁטוּ֩ הָעָ֨ם וְלָֽקְט֜וּ וְטָחֲנ֣וּ בָרֵחַ֗יִם א֤וֹ דָכוּ֙ בַּמְּדֹכָ֔ה וּבִשְּׁלוּ֙ בַּפָּר֔וּר וְעָשׂ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ עֻג֑וֹת וְהָיָ֣ה טַעְמ֔וֹ כְּטַ֖עַם לְשַׁ֥ד הַשָּֽׁמֶן׃

*Word for word:* they.went.about the people and they.gathered and they.ground in (the) hand-mill or they.pounded in (the) mortar and they.boiled in (the) pot and they.made it bread.cakes and it.was taste its like the.taste of.(the).cake of.(the) oil

*JPS 1917:* The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1743.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1743/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).