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# דָּעַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1846

**go out** — 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

go out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1846/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּעַךְ: vb. go out, be extinguished [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1846/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. go out, be extinguished (poet. & especially Wisd. lit. (Aramaic דְּעִיךְ, ܕܥܶܟ )— Pf. 3 mpl. דָּֽעֲכוּ Is 43:17; Impf. יִדְעַךְ Pr 20:20, יִדְעָ֑ךְ Jb 18:5 + 4 times;—go out, be extinguished, of lamp, always fig., lamp of wicked (i.e. prosperity) אוֹר רְשָׁעִים Jb 18:5, נֵר ר׳ Jb 18:6; 21:17 Pr 13:9; 20:20; 24:20; of hostile armies Is 43:17 (‖ כָּב֫וּ). Pf. 3 pl. נִדְעֲכוּ be made extinct, dried up, Jb 6:17 (of brooks). Pf. 3 pl. דֹּעֲכוּ of assailants, be extinguished, quenched כְּאֵשׁ קוֹצִים ψ 118:12; but read perhaps בעדו with 𝔊 Bae & Che, v. Checrit. n.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it is extinguished (3); it will be extinguished (2); they were extinguished (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.9/#tree)

אוֹר־צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִשְׂמָ֑ח וְנֵ֖ר רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִדְעָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].light of.righteous.\[people\] it.rejoices and.\[the\] lamp of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.extinguished

*JPS 1917:* The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

[Job 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.5/#tree)

גַּ֤ם א֣וֹר רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִדְעָ֑ךְ וְלֹֽא־יִ֝גַּ֗הּ שְׁבִ֣יב אִשּֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* also \[the\].light of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.extinguished and not it.shines the.flame his.fire his

*JPS 1917:* Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1846.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1846/): 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).