To subside
שָׁכַךְStrong’s H7918shakhakh (sha-khakh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shakhakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “subsided”, “put an end to” and “when subsided”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;”
Meaning
- To subside, abate, decrease(Qal) to abate · (Hiphil) to allay
How it's translated
- and they subsided 1
- and i will put an end to 1
- when subsided 1
- it subsided 1
- as bend 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 17:5And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
- Esther 2:1After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Jeremiah 5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁכַךְ shakhakh · to subside
1) to subside, abate, decrease 1a) (Qal) to abate 1b) (Hiphil) to allay
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “subside” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUBSI'DE, verb intransitive
[Latin subsido; sub and sido, to settle. See Set.]
- To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle; as lees.
- To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be calmed; to become tranquil.
- To tend downwards; to sink; as a subsiding hill.
- To abate; to be reduced.
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.