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# שָׁכַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7918

**decrease** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

decrease [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7918/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁכַךְ: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7918/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. decrease, abate (NH שְׁכִיכָה is allaying of anger; שִׁכֵּךְ אֹזֶן soothe, satisfy the ear (so appar. Dalm), i.e. allow it to hear and understand, cf. LevyNHWB (and Arabic سَكَّ be narrow, have small ears, be deaf, Frä 90); Arabic سَكّ v. humble oneself, Wahrm humiliate);— Impf. 3 mpl. וַיָּשֹׁכּוּ Gn 8:1 the waters abated; Inf. cstr. כְּשֹׁךְ Est 2:1 when abated the king’s wrath, so Pf. 3 fs. שָׁכָ֑כָה 7:10.—כְּשַׁךְ יְקוּשִׁים Je 5:26 usually like the bending, crouching, of fowlers (this meaning for שַׁךְ dub.; Dr כְּשֻׁר; Du del. ישׁור כשׁ, then reads מוֹקְשִׁים הִצִּ֔יבוּ בַּשַּׁחַת א׳ יִלְכֹּדוּ׃). Pf. 1 s. consec. וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֫י מֵעָלַי Nu 17:20 I will allay from upon me the murmurings (acc.), etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will put an end to (1); as subsided (1); bend (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.26/#tree)

כִּי־נִמְצְא֥וּ בְעַמִּ֖י רְשָׁעִ֑ים יָשׁוּר֙ כְּשַׁ֣ךְ יְקוּשִׁ֔ים הִצִּ֥יבוּ מַשְׁחִ֖ית אֲנָשִׁ֥ים יִלְכֹּֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.are.found among people my wicked.\[people\] he.watches as bend fowlers they.set a.destroyer people they.catch

*JPS 1917:* For among My people are found wicked men; they pry, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

[Esther 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.10/#tree)

וַיִּתְלוּ֙ אֶת־הָמָ֔ן עַל־הָעֵ֖ץ אֲשֶׁר־הֵכִ֣ין לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַחֲמַ֥ת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ שָׁכָֽכָה׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.hanged (et) Haman on the gallows which he.had.prepared for Mordecai and the.rage of the.king it.subsided

*JPS 1917:* So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath assuaged.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7918.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7918/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).