Strong’s H1814 · Hebrew
דָּלַק
dâlaq · daw-lak'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to flame (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version burning, chase, inflame, kindle, persecute(-or), pursue hotly.
In 9 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 31:36And 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?
- 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.
- Ezekiel 24:10Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
- Obadiah 1:18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.