Hebrew verb · H2883
טָבַע
tabataw-bah'
to sink
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâbaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2883is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2883
to sink
The King James renders it: drown, fasten, settle, sink.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
taba is rendered "to sink". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 15:4Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
Exodus 15:4טֻבְּע֥וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they have sunk2
- and he sank1
- and it sank1
- I have sunk1
- I sink1
- they are sunk1
- they have been sunk1
- they were planted1
- were they sunk1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הָטְבָּ֑עוּ2
- אֶטְבָּ֑עָה1
- הָטְבְּע֥וּ1
- וַיִּטְבַּ֥ע1
- וַתִּטְבַּ֤ע1
- טָבְע֣וּ1
- טָבְע֤וּ1
- טֻבְּע֥וּ1
- טָבַ֤עְתִּי׀1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVHp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVPp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HVqc1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
Exodus
one use
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
- טֻבְּע֥וּtubeuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been sunk
1 Samuel
one use
Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
- וַתִּטְבַּ֤עvatitba'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it sank
Job
one use
On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
- הָטְבָּ֑עוּhatebauverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: were they sunk
Psalms
three uses
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
- טָבְע֣וּtaveuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have sunk
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- טָבַ֤עְתִּי׀tava'tiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have sunk
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- אֶטְבָּ֑עָהʾetbaahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I sink
Proverbs
one use
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
- הָטְבָּ֑עוּhatebauverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were planted
Jeremiah
two uses
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- וַיִּטְבַּ֥עvaiyitba'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he sank
All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
- הָטְבְּע֥וּhatebeuverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are sunk
Lamentations
one use
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- טָבְע֤וּtaveuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have sunk
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.