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title: זָעַךְ — extinguish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זָעַךְ (2193), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: extinguish. BDB 1906: vb. extinguish. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זָעַךְ

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«זָעַךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **extinguish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2193 · **BDB:** זָעַךְ

### Glosses

they.are.extinguished (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

extinguish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2193/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. extinguish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2193/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. extinguish, only be extinguished יָמַי נִזְעָ֑כוּ Jb 17:1 (‖ רוּחִי חֻבָּ֑לָה). Elsewhere always דעך (q.v.), and so in cogn. languages. Prob. error for נדעכו.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זָעַךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2193/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 17:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.1/)

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רוּחִ֣י חֻ֭בָּלָה יָמַ֥י נִזְעָ֗כוּ קְבָרִ֥ים לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* spirit my it.is.broken days my they.are.extinguished grave(s) \[belong\].to me

*JPS 1917:* My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

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