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# דָּיֵק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1785

**bulwark** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bulwark [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּיֵק: n.m. bulwark, siege-wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bulwark, siege-wall—דָּיֵק 2 K 25:1 + 5 times—בנה ד׳ עליה סביב 2 K 25:1 = Je 52:4; cf. Ez 4:2; 17:17; 21:27 (all ‖ שׁפך סֹלֲלָה); נתן ד׳ על Ez 26:8 (‖ id.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a siege-work (6).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 26:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/#tree)

בְּנוֹתַ֥יִךְ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה בַּחֶ֣רֶב יַהֲרֹ֑ג וְנָתַ֨ן עָלַ֜יִךְ דָּיֵ֗ק וְשָׁפַ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ סֹֽלְלָ֔ה וְהֵקִ֥ים עָלַ֖יִךְ צִנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* daughters your on the land with the sword he.will.kill and he.will.make on you a.siege-work and he.will.pour.out on you a.mound and he.will.raise.up on you a.body.shield

*JPS 1917:* He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and set up bucklers against thee.

[Ezekiel 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.4.2/#tree)

וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֜יהָ מָצ֗וֹר וּבָנִ֤יתָ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ דָּיֵ֔ק וְשָׁפַכְתָּ֥ עָלֶ֖יהָ סֹֽלְלָ֑ה וְנָתַתָּ֨ה עָלֶ֧יהָ מַחֲנ֛וֹת וְשִׂים־עָלֶ֥יהָ כָּרִ֖ים סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make on it a.siege and you.will.build on it a.siege-work and you.will.pour.out on it a.mound and you.will.set.up on it armies and set on it battering-rams all.around

*JPS 1917:* and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1785.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1785/): 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).