A1855 — דְּקַק (dᵉqaq) [Aramaic]¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H1855
Original: דְּקַק
Transliteration: dᵉqaq
Pronunciation: dek-ak'
Part of Speech: Verb
Root: Corresponds to Hebrew H1854 דָּקַק (daqaq) — to crush, crumble, beat fine
Occurrences: 9 unique verses (13 tokens) in OT
Books: 1 (Daniel only)
First Occurrence: Dan 2:34 — "a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1854; to crumble or (trans.) crush: — break to pieces.

Verb Stem Distribution¶

Stem	Count	Typical Meaning
Haphel (haf)	9	cause to crush, cause to break in pieces

Tallied from hebrew_parser.py --lemma output. All 9 verses use the Haphel stem (הַ-/מְהַ- prefix), the Aramaic causative equivalent of Hebrew Hiphil. The word is always transitive in Daniel: someone/something actively crushes an object.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

All 13 tokens are rendered as variants of "break/broke/broken in pieces":

Translation	Count	%
brake in pieces / brake to pieces	4	30.8%
break in pieces / break it in pieces	3	23.1%
breaketh in pieces	1	7.7%
broken to pieces	1	7.7%
(components: "and brake," "in pieces," "to pieces")	4	30.8%

The KJV frequently splits the rendering across multiple tagged words (e.g., "brake" + "in pieces" counted separately in the concordance), hence 13 translation tokens across 9 verses.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Daniel	9	2.5

Confined exclusively to the Aramaic section of Daniel (chapters 2–7). Absent from all Hebrew portions of the OT. The concentration in one short book reflects the word's role as a key verb in Daniel's eschatological imagery.

Semantic Categories¶

1. The Smiting Stone Crushing the Statue (Dan 2)¶

The divine kingdom-stone destroys the composite statue, symbolizing the replacement of human empires. - Dan 2:34 — "a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces" - Dan 2:35 — "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors" - Dan 2:44 — "it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever" - Dan 2:45 — "the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold"

2. Iron as the Symbol of Kingdom-Crushing Power (Dan 2:40)¶

Iron's capacity to break everything is the metaphor for the strength of the fourth earthly kingdom. - Dan 2:40 — "forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise"

3. The Fourth Beast Devouring and Crushing (Dan 7)¶

In the night visions, the terrible fourth beast both devours and breaks in pieces — a doublet of destruction. - Dan 7:7 — "it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it" - Dan 7:19 — "whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet" - Dan 7:23 — "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth... and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces"

4. Physical Destruction of Human Bodies (Dan 6:24)¶

The only non-visionary use: lions physically crush bones. - Dan 6:24 — "the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
אֲכַל (ʼăkal)	H399	4x (44%)	"devoured and brake in pieces" — paired destructive actions of the fourth beast
רְבִיעַי (rᵉbîyʻay)	H7244	4x (44%)	"fourth kingdom/beast" that breaks in pieces
אֶבֶן (ʼeben)	H69	3x (33%)	the stone that smites and breaks the image
חֲזָא (chăzâʼ)	H2370	3x (33%)	visionary context — "thou sawest / I saw"
חֵיוָא (chêyvâʼ)	H2423	3x (33%)	the beast that breaks
חֲסַף (chăçaph)	H2635	3x (33%)	clay component of the statue that is broken
נְחָשׁ (nᵉchâsh)	H5174	3x (33%)	brass/bronze among materials broken
רְגַל (rᵉgal)	H7271	3x (33%)	feet — both the statue's vulnerable feet and the beast's stamping feet
מַלְכוּ (malkûw)	H4437	3x (33%)	kingdom — what gets broken and what does the breaking

Word Family / Cognates¶

H1854 דָּקַק (daqaq) — Hebrew cognate verb: to crush, beat fine, grind small; used 13 times in Hebrew OT (Exo 30:36; 32:20; Deut 9:21; 2 Sam 22:43; Isa 28:28; 41:15; etc.). Hiphil stem in Hebrew (causative) = Haphel stem in Aramaic.
H1851 דַּק (daq) — Hebrew adjective from same root: thin, fine, small (e.g., "thin ears of grain" in Gen 41:6; "fine as hoarfrost" in Exo 16:14). The adjectival state produced by the crushing action.

Synonyms¶

No synonym entries were returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic verb.

Antonyms¶

No antonym entries were returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic verb.

Easily Confused Words¶

No other Aramaic or Hebrew words share the distinctive KJV rendering "break/broke/broken in pieces" for this root. The closest semantic neighbor in Aramaic Daniel is:

Word	Strong's	Shared Context	Key Difference
H1854 דָּקַק (daqaq, Hebrew)	H1854	Same root; same KJV translation "break in pieces"	H1854 = Hebrew form (appears outside Daniel); H1855 = Aramaic form (Daniel 2–7 only)

Semantic Domains¶

No semantic-domain data was returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic verb.

LXX Mapping¶

The automated LXX co-occurrence mapping for this word yields only contextual neighbors (e.g., τέταρτος "fourth," σίδηρος "iron") — not direct translation equivalents. This is expected: the LXX alignment database maps the Aramaic Daniel text to Theodotion-Greek rather than the OG-LXX, and the alignment data is sparse for this word.

The primary Theodotion-Greek rendering is λεπτύνω (G3016, "to make fine/small, grind down") in Daniel 2 and likely συντρίβω (G4937, "to crush together, break") in Daniel 7, but these cannot be confirmed from the available tool output. No co-occurrence count reaches the TR-file threshold of ≥20.