To sink
טָבַעStrong’s H2883tava (ta-va)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tava is the Hebrew word usually translated “have sunk”, “have been sunk” and “it sank”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.”
Meaning
- To sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted(Qal) to sink, sink down · (Pual) to be sunk · (Hophal) to cause to sink
How it's translated
- they have sunk 2
- they have been sunk 1
- and it sank 1
- were they sunk 1
- i have sunk 1
- i sink 1
- they were planted 1
- and he sank 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 17:49And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
- Job 38:6Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
- Psalms 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
- Psalms 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- Proverbs 8:25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Hebrew dictionary
טָבַע tava · to sink
1) to sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted 1a) (Qal) to sink, sink down 1b)(Pual) to be sunk 1c) (Hophal) to cause to sink
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sink” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SINK, verb intransitive
preterit tense sunk; participle passive id. The old preterit tense sank is nearly obsolete.
- To fall by the force of greater gravity, in a medium or substance of less specific gravity; to subside; opposed to swim or float. Psalms 69:2
- To fall gradually.
- To enter or penetrate into any body.
- To fall; to become lower; to subside or settle to a level.
All definitions and other forms of “sink”
- To be overwhelmed or depressed.
- To enter deeply; to be impressed. Luke 9:44“Let these sayings sink down into your ears” Luke 9:44
- To become deep; to retire or fall within the surface of any thing; as, the eyes sink into the head.
- To fall; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
- To fall into rest or indolence; as, to sink away in pleasing dreams.
- To be lower; to fall; as, the price of land will sink in time of peace.
SINK, verb transitive
- To put under water; to immerse in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
- To make by digging or delving; as, to sink a pit or a well.
- To depress; to degrade.
- To plunge into destruction.
- To cause to fall or to be plunged.
- To bring low; to reduce in quantity.
- To depress; to overbear; to crush.
- To diminish; to lower or lessen; to degrade.
- To cause to decline or fail.
- To suppress; to conceal; to intervert.
- To depress to lower in value or amount.
- To reduce; to pay; to diminish or annihilate by payment; as, to sink the nation debt.
- To waste; to dissipate; as, to sink an estate.
SINK, noun
- A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
- A kind of bason of stone or wood to receive filthy water.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.