Hebrew verb · H7918
שָׁכַךְ
shakakshaw-kak'
to subside
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâkak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7918is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7918
to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood)
The King James renders it: appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.
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
shakak is rendered "to subside". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Genesis 8:1וַיָּשֹׁ֖כּוּ
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
- and I will put an end to1
- and they subsided1
- as bend1
- it subsided1
- when subsided1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֣י1
- וַיָּשֹׁ֖כּוּ1
- כְּשַׁ֣ךְ1
- כְּשֹׁ֕ךְ1
- שָׁכָֽכָה׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
Genesis
one use
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- וַיָּשֹׁ֖כּוּvaiyashokuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they subsided
Numbers
one use
The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”
- וַהֲשִׁכֹּתִ֣יvahashikotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will put an end to
Esther
two uses
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.
- כְּשֹׁ֕ךְkeshokhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when subsided
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- שָׁכָֽכָה׃ פshakhakhahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it subsided
Jeremiah
one use
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- כְּשַׁ֣ךְkeshakhpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as bend
The letters
Gematria 340· 820 mispar gadol
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.