to put out
da.akh describes a light, lamp, fire, or opposing force being extinguished or brought to an end.
The dominant use describes a light or lamp ceasing to shine, especially in statements about the wicked. The remaining verses extend the same extinguishing imagery to forces that do not rise again, persons compared with fire among thorns, and something that vanishes in heat.
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Extinguishing a light or lamp · dominant
The Qal imperfect forms occur in clauses about a wicked person's light, flame, or lamp no longer shining. In Job 18:5 the APB renders the clause "the light of the wicked will be extinguished," while Job 18:6, Proverbs 20:20, and Proverbs 24:20 portray a lamp going out or being put out.
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Being quenched or coming to an end · common
Outside the lamp-and-light clauses, the term marks a collective result of cessation. In Isaiah 43:17 the APB renders those brought out together as lying down, not rising, and being "extinguished like flax"; in Psalm 118:12 those surrounding the speaker are "quenched like a fire among thorns." Job 6:17 similarly places the Niphal perfect form in a clause rendered "they vanish" when heat comes.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses "extinguished," "go out," "put out," and "quenched," and in Job 6:17 it uses "vanish" and "consumed." These are renderings of whole clauses.