Strong's #1794: dakah (pronounced daw-kaw')

a primitive root (compare 1790, 1792); to collapse (phys. or mentally):--break (sore), contrite, crouch.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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dâkâh

1) to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken

1a) (Qal) to be crushed, collapse

1b) (Niphal) to be crushed, be contrite, be broken

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to crush down

1c2) to crush to pieces

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root (compare H1790, H1792)

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Psalms 10:10: " He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones."
Psalms 38:8: "and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart."
Psalms 44:19: " thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death."
Psalms 51:8: "joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."
Psalms 51:17: "are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."