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To sink

מָכַךְStrong’s H4355

makhakh (ma-khakh)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Makhakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “are brought low”, “sank” and “it sinks”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.”
Job 24:24 KJV
Meaning
  1. To be low, be humiliated(Qal) to be low, be humiliated · (Niphal) to sink · (Hophal) to be brought low
How it's translated
  • and they are brought low 1
  • and they sank 1
  • it sinks 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1
  • Psalms 1
  • Ecclesiastes 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָכַךְ makhakh · to sink

1) to be low, be humiliated 1a) (Qal) to be low, be humiliated 1b) (Niphal) to sink 1c) (Hophal) to be brought low

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.

  1. 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
  2. To fall gradually.
  3. To enter or penetrate into any body.
  4. To fall; to become lower; to subside or settle to a level.
All definitions and other forms of “sink”
  1. To be overwhelmed or depressed.
  2. To enter deeply; to be impressed. Luke 9:44“Let these sayings sink down into your ears” Luke 9:44
  3. To become deep; to retire or fall within the surface of any thing; as, the eyes sink into the head.
  4. To fall; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
  5. To fall into rest or indolence; as, to sink away in pleasing dreams.
  6. To be lower; to fall; as, the price of land will sink in time of peace.

SINK, verb transitive

  1. To put under water; to immerse in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
  2. To make by digging or delving; as, to sink a pit or a well.
  3. To depress; to degrade.
  4. To plunge into destruction.
  5. To cause to fall or to be plunged.
  6. To bring low; to reduce in quantity.
  7. To depress; to overbear; to crush.
  8. To diminish; to lower or lessen; to degrade.
  9. To cause to decline or fail.
  10. To suppress; to conceal; to intervert.
  11. To depress to lower in value or amount.
  12. To reduce; to pay; to diminish or annihilate by payment; as, to sink the nation debt.
  13. To waste; to dissipate; as, to sink an estate.

SINK, noun

  1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
  2. 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.