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To sink

שׁוּחַStrong’s H7743

shuach (shu-ach)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shuach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has sunk down”, “sank down” and “so it may bow down”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.”
Psalms 44:25 KJV
Meaning
  1. To sink down, be bowed down, be humble(Qal) to sink down · (Hiphil) of depression of the mind
How it's translated
  • it has sunk down 1
  • she sank down 1
  • so it may bow down 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1
  • Proverbs 1
  • Lamentations 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שׁוּחַ shuach · to sink

1) to sink down, be bowed down, be humble 1a) (Qal) to sink down 1b) (Hiphil) of depression of the mind

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.