Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to knock; by analogy, to press severely
KJV Usage: beat, knock, overdrive
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דָּפַק (da.phaq) — to beat. 1) to beat, knock 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to beat, drive severely 1a2) to knock 1b) (Hithpael) to beat violently
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Impact | verb qal, verb hit
to knock, to beat = action by which someone strikes a surface noisily to attract attention
Engage | verb qal sg
to be driven hard, to be overdriven = state in which people or animals are forced to exert more strength than they can handle
1 JDG 19:22 HALAT (cf. Lisowsky) proposes for the hitp. a meaning "to push one another" | DCH mentions it as "hurl oneself" | but it can be understood as the intensive of the qal ("a violent pounding that almost breaks down the door", M.G.Klingbeil, DOTTE 1: 980).
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[דָּפַק] vb. beat, knock Qal beat (in driving, drive severely or cruelly)
Hithp. beat violently (beat themselves tired) against the door.
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