quench
19 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Quench not the Spirit.
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,
Water will quench a flaming fire; and alms maketh an atonement for sins.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?
May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?
A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?
OT Pseudepigrapha
"For God has not fed us with the Tree of Life, in order that we may not live. We will, therefore, ask him to give us of the Water of Life, and to quench our thirst with it, rather than with a drink of water of this land."
For the temperate mind is able to conquer the dictates of the passions, and to quench the fires of desire, and to wrestle victoriously with the pangs of our bodies though they be exceeding strong, and by the moral beauty and goodness of Reason to defy with scorn all the domination of the passions.