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# דַּכָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1793

**contrite** — used 3 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

contrite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1793/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּכָּא: adj. contrite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1793/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. contrite (crushed)—דַּכָּא Is 57:15; דַּכְּאֵי ψ 34:19—contrite Is 57:15 (‖ שְׁפַל־רוּהַ); ד׳ רוּחַ ψ 34:19 (‖ נִשְׁבְּרֵי־לֵב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: \[people\] crushed (1); a \[person\] crushed (1); crushed matter (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 90:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.3/#tree)

תָּשֵׁ֣ב אֱ֭נוֹשׁ עַד־דַּכָּ֑א וַ֝תֹּ֗אמֶר שׁ֣וּבוּ בְנֵי־אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* you.return humankind to crushed.matter and you.said return O.children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'

[Psalms 34:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.34.19/#tree)

קָר֣וֹב יְ֭הוָה לְנִשְׁבְּרֵי־לֵ֑ב וְֽאֶת־דַּכְּאֵי־ר֥וּחַ יוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].near Yahweh to \[those.who.are\].broken of.heart and (et) \[people\].crushed of.spirit he.delivers

*JPS 1917:* The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1793.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1793/): 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).