Strong's Hebrew · H1760

דָּחָה

dâchâh · daw-khaw'

chase, drive away (on), overthrow, outcast, [idiom] sore, thrust, totter.

Definition

to push down

Derivation

or דָּחַח; (Jeremiah 23:12), a primitive root;

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Psalms 62:3

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

Jeremiah 23:12

“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

Psalms 140:4

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

Psalms 36:12

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Psalms 118:13

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

Psalms 35:5

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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