דָּעַךְ

daach · go out, be extinguished

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1846 · appears 9 times in the Bible

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What it means

daach (דָּעַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “go out, be extinguished”.

To go out, to be extinguished, like a lamp; also to dry up.

How to say it

da·ach

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To stop burning, like a lamp or fire; vanish.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • extinguished ×6
  • will go out ×2
  • goes out ×1

Where it appears

  • Job 6:17

    When they grow warm, they vanish; in the heat they are extinguished from their place.

  • Job 18:5

    Also the light of the wicked is extinguished, and the spark of his fire does not shine.

  • Job 18:6

    The light grows dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Job 21:17

    How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, and does their calamity come upon them, and does he distribute pains in his anger?

  • Psalms 118:12

    They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.

  • Proverbs 13:9

    The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

  • Proverbs 20:20

    Whoever curses his father and his mother, his lamp will go out in the blackness of darkness.

  • Proverbs 24:20

    for there will be no future for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked will go out.

  • Isaiah 43:17

    who brings out chariot and horse, army and the strong —together they lie down, they will not rise; they are extinguished, like a wick they are quenched—: