Word

שָׁקַע

shâqaʻ · H8257 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to sink

Process by which an object drops down to a lower level

Examples
Amos 8:8 “Because of this will the land not quake, And everyone who lives in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of Egypt.
Job 41:1 “Can you drag out Leviathan with a fishhook, And press down his tongue with a rope?
Amos 9:5 The Lord GOD of armies, The One who touches the land so that it quakes, And all those who live in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
to abate

Literally: to sink; hence: process by which an event is reduced in intensity

Examples
Numbers 11:2 The people then cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died out.
to cause to abate

To cause to sink; hence: causative process by which deities cause the movement of an object to be reduced in intensity

Examples
Ezekiel 32:14 “Then I will make their waters settle, And make their rivers run like oil,” Declares the Lord GOD.
to sink

Literally: to sink; hence: process by which a person or place loses its status

Examples
Jeremiah 51:64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again, because of the disaster that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” To this point are the words of Jeremiah.

How it’s used In 5 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

6 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 2
אֵשׁfire 1
בָּבֶלBabylon, Babel 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לָשׁוֹןtongue, language 1
מַיִםwater 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

כlike/as+ יְאֹרriver Nile 2
בin/on/with+ חֶבֶלcord, rope, region 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אָזat that time 1
כָּכָהthus 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֲדֹנָיLord 1

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 3 words

טָבַע ṭâbaʻ · H2883 · to sink, to fall (into), to drive: Both denote downward motion into liquid or depths, with shared senses of sinking and drowning.
שָׁחַח shâchach · H7817 · to become low, to be in distress: Both describe downward movement or position.
שָׁפֵל shâphêl · H8213 · to become low, to be low: Both lexemes denote downward motion or lowering — שָׁפֵל (shâphêl, H8213) means "abase, bring down, make low" and שָׁקַע (shâqaʻ, H8257) means "let down, sink, make deep." These are distinct verbs with overlapping lowering or downward senses, making them near-synonyms.

In the other Testament 1 word

καταβαίνω katabaínō · G2597 · to move down, to come down, to go down: Greek καταβαίνω focuses on directional descent/downward motion, while Hebrew שָׁקַע emphasizes the endpoint state of sinking/submerging into depth; καταβαίνω renders the dynamic movement aspect of שָׁקַע's 'sink' sense in LXX contexts.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Low002001001040: This verb denotes sinking downward, as in Jeremiah 51:64's oracle that Babylon will sink down and not rise again.
Lax002001003012: The verb also denotes a turbulence being calmed and settled, as in Ezekiel 32:14's declaration that the LORD will make the waters settle and the rivers run like oil.
Insignificant002001002015: This domain reflects a metaphorical humbling associated with this verb's sense of downfall, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁקַעshâqaʻ · H8257מִשְׁקָע mishqâʻ · H4950 · clear water · 1×שְׁקַעְרוּרָה shᵉqaʻrûwrâh · H8258 · depression · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8257. shaqa [שָׁקַע] verb sink, sink down (so Late Hebrew שָׁקַע, Aramaic שְׁקַע; Arabic…

H8257. shaqa
[שָׁקַע] verb sink, sink down (so Late Hebrew שָׁקַע, Aramaic שְׁקַע; Arabic has be smitten, prostrated, collapse ); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular consecutive וְשָֽׁקְעָה; Amo 9:5 it shall sink like the Nile (of land; opposed to עָלַה); 3 feminine singular וַתִּשְׁקַע Num 11:2 (JE), of fire, it sunk down, died out; תִּשְׁקַע Jer 51:64, of Babylon (like stone in water; opposed to קוּם).
Niph`al3feminine singular נִשְׁקְעָה Amo 8:8 Qr, of land, sink (opposed to עָלָה; =
Qal Amo 9:5; Kt erroneous נשקה, compare WSG287).
Hiph`il Imperfect1singular מֵימֵיהֶם אַשְׁקִיעַ Eze 32:14 I will make their waters sink, (settle, grow clear); 2 masculine singular לְשׁוֺנוֺ תַּשְׁקִיעַ וּחְֶבֶל Job 40:25 with a cord wilt thou make his tongue sink (? pull or press it down; of crocodile; MichSuppl,2349 cited Thes 1477, compare Samaritan = חבשׁ bind).

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Low3 occurrences Insignificant1 occurrence Lax2 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