To burn/pursue
דָּלַקStrong’s H1814dalaq (da-laq)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dalaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “have hotly pursued”, “from hotly pursuing” and “into burning”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?”
Meaning
- To burn, hotly pursue(Qal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- you have hotly pursued 1
- from hotly pursuing 1
- into burning 1
- he hotly pursues 1
- burning 1
- it inflames them 1
- they hotly pursued us 1
- kindle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:53And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
- Psalms 7:13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- Psalms 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Proverbs 26:23Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
- Lamentations 4:19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּלַק dalaq · to burn/pursue
1) to burn, hotly pursue 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to burn 1a2) to hotly pursue 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to kindle 1b2) to inflame Aramaic equivalent: de.laq (דְּלַק "to burn" H1815)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “burning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURN'ING, participle present
tense Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.
All definitions and other forms of “burning”
BURN'ING, noun
Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion. In surgery, actual cautery; cauterization.
BURN'ING, adjective
Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.
- Much heated; very hot; scorching.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.