To sink
שָׁקַעStrong’s H8257shaqa (sha-qa)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaqa is the Hebrew word usually translated “it died out”, “hold down” and “it will sink”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.”
Meaning
- To sink, sink down, subside(Qal) to sink · (Niphal) to sink, collapse · (Hiphil) to sink down, cause to settle
How it's translated
- and it died out 1
- will you hold down 1
- it will sink 1
- i will make settle 1
- and it will sink 1
- and it sinks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 2
- Numbers 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
- Jeremiah 51:64And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezekiel 32:14Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
- Amos 8:8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
- Amos 9:5And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁקַע shaqa · to sink
1) to sink, sink down, subside 1a) (Qal) to sink 1b) (Niphal) to sink, collapse 1c)(Hiphil) to sink down, cause to settle
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.