שָׁקַעshâqaʻ

sink, sink down

Pronunciation: shaw-kah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8257

Meanings

Qal: sink (Amos 9:5; Numbers 11:2; Jeremiah 51:64)

Niph`al: sink (Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5)

Hiph`il: make, sink (Ezekiel 32:14; Job 40:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 11:2 Then the people screamed to Moses for help, and when he prayed to the Lord, the fire stopped.
  • Job 41:1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
  • Jeremiah 51:64 Then say, ‘In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.’” This is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.
  • Ezekiel 32:14 Then I will let the waters of Egypt become calm again, and they will flow as smoothly as olive oil, says the Sovereign Lord.
  • Amos 8:8 The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again.
  • Amos 9:5 The Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, touches the land and it melts, and all its people mourn. The ground rises like the Nile River at floodtime, and then it sinks again.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).