דָּקַר
da.qar
“to pierce”
Definition
to stab; by analogy, to starve; figuratively, to revile
a primitive root;
- to pierce, thrust through, pierce through 1a) (Qal) to pierce, run through 1b) (Niphal) to be pierced through 1c) (Pual) pierced, riddled (participle)
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Occurrences
דָּקַר appears 10 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!”But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
Whoever is caught will be stabbed,and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”
Those slain by the sword are better offthan those who die of hunger,who waste away, pierced with painbecause the fields lack produce.
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
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