דָּקַר
da.qar (H1856)
to pierce
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# Analysis of דָּקַר (daqar): "To Pierce" The Hebrew verb דָּקַר (daqar) carries the straightforward meaning "to pierce," describing a forceful action that penetrates through something. With eleven occurrences across biblical texts, this word occupies a modest but consistent place in biblical Hebrew vocabulary. The relative rarity of the term suggests it was used selectively—reserved for moments when the writer needed to convey the specific act of piercing rather than more general verbs of wounding or striking. The word's limited frequency in the biblical record indicates it likely appeared in contexts where the particular nature of piercing—the penetrating action itself—was important to the narrative or legal matter at hand. Without additional context from specific passages, we can understand that דָּקַר functioned as a precise descriptor in Hebrew, distinguishing between different modes of violence or injury. This specificity would have made it valuable for biblical writers describing military encounters, acts of violence, or precise legal situations where the manner of injury needed exact terminology.
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He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.
Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.
Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.
I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.