Hebrew verb · H8257
שָׁקַע
shaqashaw-kah'
to sink
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâqaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8257is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8257
to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue
The King James renders it: make deep, let down, drown, quench, 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
shaqa is rendered "to sink". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Amos, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 11:2And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
Numbers 11:2וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע
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 it died out1
- and it sinks1
- and it will sink1
- I will make settle1
- it will sink1
- will you hold down1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁקָה | shaqah | to water: watering | Uses61 |
| שָׁקַט | shaqat | to quiet | Uses41 |
| שָׁקַל | shaqal | to weigh | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַף | shaqaph | to look | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַד | shaqad | to watch | Uses12 |
| שָׁקַץ | shaqats | to detest | Uses7 |
| שָׁקַד | shaqad | be almond shaped | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַק | shaqaq | to rush | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַר | shaqar | to deal | Uses6 |
| שָׁקֵד | shaqed | almond | Uses4 |
| שָׁקֻף | shaquph | frame | Uses2 |
| שָׁק | shaq | leg | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- אַשְׁקִ֣יעַ1
- וְנִשְׁקְעָ֖ה1
- וְשָׁקְעָ֖ה1
- וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע1
- תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ1
- תִּשְׁקַ֨ע1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/VNq3fs1Hc/VNq3fs
- Hc/Vqq3fs1Hc/Vqq3fs
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
Numbers
one use
And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
- וַתִּשְׁקַ֖עvatishka'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it died out
Job
one use
“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַtashkia'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you hold down
Jeremiah
one use
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- תִּשְׁקַ֨עtishka'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will sink
Ezekiel
one use
Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- אַשְׁקִ֣יעַʾashkia'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make settle
Amos
two uses
Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
- וְנִשְׁקְעָ֖הvenishkahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will sink
The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
- וְשָׁקְעָ֖הveshakeahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it sinks
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.