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# שָׁקַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8257

**sink** — used 6 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

sink [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8257/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁקַע: vb. sink, sink down Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8257/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sink, sink down (so NH שָׁקַע, Aramaic שְׁקַע; Arabic has صَقِعَ be smitten, prostrated, collapse);— Pf. 3 fs. consec. וְשָֽׁקְעָה Am 9:5 it shall sink like the Nile (of land; opp. עָלָה); 3 fs. וַתִּשְׁקַע Nu 11:2 (JE), of fire, it sank down, died out; תִּשְׁקַע Je 51:64, of Babylon (like stone in water; opp. קוּם). 3 fs. נִשְׁקְעָה Am 8:8 Qr, of land, sink (opp. עָלָה; = Qal 9:5; Kt erron. נשקה, cf. WSG 287). Impf. 1 s. אַשְׁקִיעַ מֵימֵיהֶם Ez 32:14 I will make their waters sink (settle, grow clear); 2 ms. וּבְחֶבֶל תַּשְׁקִיעַ לְשׁוֹנוֹ Jb 40:25 with a cord wilt thou make his tongue sink (? pull or press it down; of crocodile; MichSuppl. 2349, cited Thes1477, cp. Sam. ࠔࠒࠏ= חבשׁ bind).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it will sink (2); I will make settle (1); it died out (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/#tree)

תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּחַכָּ֑ה וּ֝בְחֶ֗בֶל תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will.you.draw.out? Leviathan with a.fish.hook and with a.cord will.you.make.sink? tongue its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?

[Numbers 11:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.2/#tree)

וַיִּצְעַ֥ק הָעָ֖ם אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֤ל מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֔ה וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע הָאֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and it.cried.out the people to Moses and he.prayed Moses to Yahweh and it.died.out the fire

*JPS 1917:* And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8257.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8257/): 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).