Click to donate today!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #1846 - דָּעַךְ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Book
- Word
2108) kod (דאהכ DAhK) AC: Extinguish CO: ? AB: ?: [from: ka]
V) kod (דאהכ DAhK) - Extinguish: To put out a flame. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Pual) put out, extinct, consume, quench - Strongs: H1846 (דָּעַךְ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
דָּעַךְ i.q. Syr. ܕܥܶܟ to be extinguished, pr. of a lantern, or lamp, Proverbs 13:9, נֵר רְשָׁעִים יִדְעָךְ “the lamp of the wicked shall be put out,” i.e. their good fortune shall perish; compare the Arabic proverb, الدهر اطفا سراجى ill fortune has put out my lamp. Proverbs 20:20, 24:20 Job 18:5, Job 18:6, 21:17. Applied to the destruction of enemies, Isaiah 43:17, and to the drying up of water, see Niphal.
Niphal, to become extinct, i.e. to dry up (when spoken of water), (comp. exstinguere aquam, Liv. v. 15; succum, Curt. vi. 4; mammas, Plin. xxiii. 2). Job 6:17.
Pual, to be extinct, applied to enemies, Psalms 118:12.
[דָּעַל an unused root, see תִּדְעָל.]
the Fourth Week after Epiphany