דָּעַךְ
dâʻak · H1846 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to go out, to be extinguished
Process by which a fire or light is put out; associated with the beginning of difficult times, and sometimes even death
ExamplesJob 18:5 “Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the spark from his fire does not shine.
Job 18:6 “The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him.
Job 21:17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their disaster fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
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to dwindle, to vanish
Process by which something ceases to exist
ExamplesJob 6:17 “When they dry up, they vanish; When it is hot, they disappear from their place.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
9 occurrences in 3 groups
- נִירlamp 5
- Not stated: they 3
- אוֹרlight 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 6 groups
- מִןfrom+ מָקוֹםplace 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ וֹhim 1
- בin/on/with+ חָמַםto be warm 1
- בin/on/with+ אִישׁוֹןapple of the eye 1
- כlike/as+ מָהwhat?, why? 1
- כlike/as+ אֵשׁfire 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- כָּבָה kâbâh · H3518 · to be extinguished, to extinguish
- Both words denote the extinguishing or quenching of fire or light, describing the same action (cessation of burning or flame). They are two distinct Hebrew verbs with overlapping sense in the field of extinguishing.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Quench002001001047
- דָּעַךְ describes a fire or lamp being quenched or going out, the literal extinguishing of a flame, as in the proverb of the wicked man's lamp being put out.
- Non-Exist002002002006
- דָּעַךְ extends this quenching sense to a person's life or hope being extinguished entirely, a figurative cessation of existence paralleling a snuffed-out flame.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1846. daak [דָּעַךְ] verb go out, be extinguished (in poetry & especially Wisdom…
[דָּעַךְ] verb go out, be extinguished (in poetry & especially Wisdom literature) (Aramaic דְּעִיךְ, ) —
Qal Perfect3masculine plural דָּֽעֲכוּ Isa 43:17; Imperfect יִדְעַךְ Pro 20:20, יִדְעָ֑ךְ Job 18:5 Job 18:4t.; — go out, be extinguished, of lamp, always figurative, lamp of wicked (i.e. prosperity) רְשָׁעִים אוֺר Job 18:5, ר ׳נֵר Job 18:6; Job 21:17; Pro 13:9; Pro 20:20; Pro 24:20; of hostile armies Isa 43:17 (|| כָּב֫וּ).
Niph`al Perfect3plural נִדְעֲכוּ be made extinct, dried up, Job 6:17 (of brooks).
Pu`al Perfect3plural דֹּעֲכוּ of assailants, be extinguished, quenched, קוֺצִים כְּאֵשׁ Psa 118:12; but read perhaps בערו with ᵐ5 Bae & Che, see Checritical note.
דַּעַת see below ידע.
דפה (√ of following, meaning unknown; Late Hebrew דּוֺפִי is blemish, fault).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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