Word

שָׁכַךְ

shâkak · H7918 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to abate, to subside

Process by which events become less intense

Examples
Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.
Esther 2:1 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decided regarding her.
Numbers 17:5 “And it will come about that the staff of the man whom I choose will sprout. So I will relieve Myself of the grumblings of the sons of Israel, who are grumbling against you.”
to bend, to bow down

Meaning unsure; possibly: action by which humans bow down in order to make themselves small and invisible

Examples
Jeremiah 5:26 ‘For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 4 groups

חֵמָהwrath, fury 2
יָקוּשׁhunter 1
מַיִםwater 1
Not stated: I 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

תְּלוּנָהgrumbling, complaint 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

רָפָה râphâh · H7503 · to grow weak, to be discouraged: Both are verbs of cessation or reduction. רָפָה (râphâh, H7503) includes ceasing, abating and being slack, while שָׁכַךְ (shâkak, H7918) includes causing to cease, assuaging and appeasing.

In the other Testament 1 word

κοπάζω kopázō · G2869 · to cease, to stop: Greek κοπάζω emphasizes the cessation of activity through exhaustion or wearying (figurative relaxation), while Hebrew שָׁכַךְ focuses on the act of causing something to stop or become calm (appeasement, pacification); both converge on the cessation outcome but differ in the mechanism—κοπάζω implies internal diminishment while שָׁכַךְ implies external causation.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Lax002001003012: The verb for subsiding or being pacified, directly shown in the floodwaters that "subsided" after God remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1) and King Ahasuerus's anger that "subsided" toward Vashti (Esther 2:1) and toward Haman's plot (Esther 7:10); the sampled excerpt at Jeremiah 5:26 describes fowlers setting traps rather than anything subsiding, and no excerpt text is available for Numbers 17:20.
Stance002001001061: This domain reflects the "set" sense named in the gloss (a settling into a fixed state), consistent with but not sharply distinguished from the Lax domain above in the floodwaters' subsiding (Genesis 8:1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7918. shakak [שָׁכַךְ] verb decrease, abate (Late Hebrew שְׁכִיכָה is allaying of anger;…

H7918. shakak
[שָׁכַךְ] verb decrease, abate (Late Hebrew שְׁכִיכָה is allaying of anger; אֹזֶן שִׁכֵּךְ soothe, satisfy the ear (so apparently Dalm), i.e. allow it to hear and understand, compare LevyNHWB (and Arabic be narrow have small ears, be deaf, Frä90); — Arabic see humble oneself, Wahrm humiliate); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine plural וַיָּשֹׁכוּ Gen 8:1 the waters abated; Infinitive construct כְּשֹׁךְ Est 2:1 when abated the king's wrath, so Perfect3feminine singular שָׁכָ֑כָה Est 7:10. — יְקוּשִׁים כְּשַׁךְ Jer 5:26 usually like the bending, crouching, of fowlers (this meaning for שַׁךְ dubious; Dr כְּשֻׁר Du strike out כשׁ ישׁור, then reads א בַּשַּׁחַת הִצִּיבוּ ׳מוֺקְשִׁים יִלְכֹּדוּ׃).
Hiph`il Perfect1singular consecutive מֵעָלַי וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֫י Numbers 17:20 I will allay from upon me the murmurings (accusative), etc.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Stance1 occurrence Lax4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0