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# דָּקַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1856

**pierce** — used 11 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

pierce [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1856/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּקַר: vb. pierce, pierce through [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1856/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pierce, pierce through (NH id., Aramaic דְּקַר, ܕܩܰܪ )— Pf. 3 pl. דָּקָ֑רוּ Zc 12:10; sf. וּדְקָרֻנִי consec. 1 S 31:4, וּדְקָרֻהוּ consec. Zc 13:3; Impf. וַיִּדְקֹר Nu 25:8, וַיִּדְקְרֵהוּ Ju 9:54—pierce, run through (always c. acc.): as retributive act, Israelite and Midianit. woman Nu 25:8; false prophet Zc 13:3; but also as speedy death Ju 9:54 (Abimelech); 1 S 31:4a (Saul) = 1 Ch 10:4; also 1 S 31:4b (but del. Be We after 1 Ch 10:4 & so 𝔊L 1 S 31:4 b), see also Zc 12:10 (cf. John 19:37). Impf. יִדָּקֵר be pierced through, slain Is 13:15 (in conquest of Bab. by Medes). Pt. pl. מְדֻקָּרִים pierced, riddled, (i.e. desperately wounded) warriors, Je 37:10, slain Je 51:4 (‖ חללים); by hunger La 4:9 (‖ חַלְלֵי רָעָב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pierced through (3); pierce (2); they (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 51:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.51.4/#tree)

וְנָפְל֥וּ חֲלָלִ֖ים בְּאֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.fall slain in the.land of.\[the\].Chaldeans and pierced.through in streets its

*JPS 1917:* And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

[Isaiah 13:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.15/#tree)

כָּל־הַנִּמְצָ֖א יִדָּקֵ֑ר וְכָל־הַנִּסְפֶּ֖ה יִפּ֥וֹל בֶּחָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* every (the).\[one who.is\].found he.will.be.pierced.through and every (the).\[one who.is\].captured he.will.fall by the sword

*JPS 1917:* Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1856.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1856/): 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).