דָּעַךְdâʻak
go out, be extinguished
Pronunciation: daw-ak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1846
Meanings
Qal: go out, be extinguished, of lamp, always figurative, lamp of wicked (i.e. prosperity) (Isaiah 43:17; Proverbs 20:20; Job 18:5)
Niph`al: be made extinct, dried up (Job 6:17)
Pu`al: be extinguished, quenched (Psalms 118:12)
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Job 6:17 But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears. The brook vanishes in the heat.
- Job 18:5 “Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out. The sparks of their fire will not glow.
- Job 18:6 The light in their tent will grow dark. The lamp hanging above them will be quenched.
- Job 21:17 “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
- Psalms 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a crackling fire. But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
- Proverbs 13:9 The life of the godly is full of light and joy, but the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).