dalak · burn; pursue hotly

What it means

dalak (דָּלַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burn; pursue hotly”.

Burn; hence pursue hotly.

How to say it

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 blaze, or make something burn with a fierce fire.
2. To go after someone in fury, giving no respite.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are burning ×1
• fiery ×1
• hotly pursues ×1
• hotly pursuing ×1
• inflames them ×1
• kindle ×1
• they chased us ×1
• they will burn ×1
• you have hotly pursued ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Obadiah×1

• Genesis 31:36

  Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

• 1 Samuel 17:53

  The sons of Israel returned from hotly pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camps.

• Psalms 7:13

  And for him he has prepared weapons of death; he makes his arrows fiery.

• Psalms 10:2

  In his pride the wicked hotly pursues the afflicted; let them be caught in the plans that they have devised.

• Proverbs 26:23

  Silver of dross overlaid on earthenware, are burning lips and an evil heart.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after intoxicating drink, who linger into the twilight while wine inflames them!

• Lamentations 4:19

  Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of the heavens; on the mountains they chased us; in the wilderness they lay in wait for us.

• Ezekiel 24:10

  Heap up the wood, kindle the fire, finish the meat, and mix the spices, and let the bones be charred.

• Obadiah 1:18

  And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will burn among them and consume them, and there will not be a survivor of the house of Esau, for YHWH has spoken.