דָּעַךְ dâʻak — to be extinguished
Translated in the KJV as be extinct, consumed, put out, quenched.
a primitive root; to be extinguished; figuratively, to expire or be dried up.
dâʻak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 1
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
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