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# דָּפַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1849

**beat** — 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

beat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּפַק: vb. beat, knock [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. beat, knock (Arabic دَفَقَ pour out, also drive (beasts))— Perf. 3 mpl. sf. וּדְפָקוּם consec. Gn 33:13, but read 1 s. sf. וּדְפַקְתִּים 𝔊 𝔖 Sam Di beat (in driving, drive severely or cruelly); Pt. דּוֹפֵק Ct 5:2 abs. knocking (at door). Pt. מִתְדַּפְּקִים עַל־הַדָּ֑לֶת Ju 19:22 beat violently (beat themselves tired) against the door.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] knocking (1); beating violently (1); people (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 33:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.33.13/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֲדֹנִ֤י יֹדֵ֙עַ֙ כִּֽי־הַיְלָדִ֣ים רַכִּ֔ים וְהַצֹּ֥אן וְהַבָּקָ֖ר עָל֣וֹת עָלָ֑י וּדְפָקוּם֙ י֣וֹם אֶחָ֔ד וָמֵ֖תוּ כָּל־הַצֹּֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to him lord my \[is\].knowing (dm).that the children \[are\].weak and the sheep and the cattle \[are\].nursing with me and people will.drive.them.hard a.day one and they.will.die all the flock

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

[Song of Songs 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.2/#tree)

אֲנִ֥י יְשֵׁנָ֖ה וְלִבִּ֣י עֵ֑ר ק֣וֹל ׀ דּוֹדִ֣י דוֹפֵ֗ק פִּתְחִי־לִ֞י אֲחֹתִ֤י רַעְיָתִי֙ יוֹנָתִ֣י תַמָּתִ֔י שֶׁרֹּאשִׁי֙ נִמְלָא־טָ֔ל קְוֻּצּוֹתַ֖ירְסִ֥יסֵי לָֽיְלָה׃

*Word for word:* I \[was\].sleeping and heart my \[was\].awake the.sound my.lover my \[is\].knocking open to me my.sister my friend my dove my my.perfect \[one\] that head my \[is\].filled dew locks my dewdrops of.night

*JPS 1917:* I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1849.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1849/): 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).