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# דָּלַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1814

**burn** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

burn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1814/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּלַק: vb. burn hotly pursue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1814/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. burn (intrans.), hotly pursue (NH id. Aramaic דְּלַק, ܕܠܰܩ all intrans. burn, kindle; Hiph., Aph. transitive)— Pf. 2 ms. דָּלַקְתָּ Gn 31:36; 3 mpl. וְדָֽלְקוּ consec. Ob 18; sf. דְּלָקֻנוּ La 4:19; Impf. יִדְלַק ψ 10:2; Inf. cstr. דְּלֹק 1 S 17:53; Pt. act. pl. דֹּלְקִים Pr 26:23;— burn, וְדָֽלְקוּ בָהֶם Ob 18 (fig. of Isr. ravaging among Edomites, ‖ וַאֲכָלוּם; on construction c. בְּ cf. 2 K 17:25); also in חִצָּיו לְדֹלְקִים יִפְעָ֑ל ψ 7:14 his arrows he maketh burning ones (subj. God) RV De Che al.; & שְׂפָתַיִם דֹּלְקִים Pr 26:23 burning (fervent) lips (opp. לֵב רָ֑ע). hotly pursue Gn 31:36 (E; sq. אַחֲרֵי 1 S 17:53 (sq. id.); ψ 10:2; La 4:19 (both sq. acc.) Impf. sf. יַדְלִיקֵם Is 5:11; Imv. הַדְלֵק Ez 24:10;—inflame, c. acc., subj. wine Is 5:11; kindle obj. הָאֵשׁ Ez 24:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burning (1); burning \[things\] (1); he hotly pursues (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.10.2/#tree)

בְּגַאֲוַ֣ת רָ֭שָׁע יִדְלַ֣ק עָנִ֑י יִתָּפְשׂ֓וּ ׀ בִּמְזִמּ֖וֹת ז֣וּ חָשָֽׁבוּ׃

*Word for word:* in.\[the\] pride of.\[the\].wicked he.hotly.pursues \[the\].afflicted they.are.caught by schemes which they.have.planned

*JPS 1917:* Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.

[Proverbs 26:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.23/#tree)

כֶּ֣סֶף סִ֭יגִים מְצֻפֶּ֣ה עַל־חָ֑רֶשׂ שְׂפָתַ֖יִם דֹּלְקִ֣ים וְלֶב־רָֽע׃

*Word for word:* silver of.dross(es) overlaid on earthenware lips burning and a.heart evil

*JPS 1917:* Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1814.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1814/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).