Word Study · Strong's H7918 · Hebrew
שָׁכַךְ
shakak
shaw-kak'
Strong's 1890 spelling: shâkak
“to weave (i.e. lay) a trap”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood)
Rendered in the KJV as
appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֣י1
- וַיָּשֹׁ֖כּוּ1
- כְּשַׁ֣ךְ1
- כְּשֹׁ֕ךְ1
- שָׁכָֽכָה׃ פ1
How it is rendered · 5
- and I will put an end to1
- and they subsided1
- as bend1
- it subsided1
- when subsided1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2
- Hc/Vhq1cs1
- Hc/Vqw3mp1
- verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Vqcc · 2
- Hc/Vhq1cs · 1
- Hc/Vqw3mp · 1
- HVqp3fs · 1
All 5, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Esther carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Esther2 occurrences
- Esther 2:1כְּשֹׁ֕ךְkeshokhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.here: when subsided
- Esther 7:10שָׁכָֽכָה׃ פshakhakhahverb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singularSo they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.here: it subsided