1) to sink, sink down, subside 1a) (Qal) to sink 1b) (Niphal) to sink, collapse 1c)(Hiphil) to sink down, cause to settle
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H8257 — שָׁקַע
sha.qa · to sink · Hebrew/Aramaic
5 tagged verse occurrences
Numbers 11:2 · וַתִּשְׁקַ֖עAnd the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.Job 41:1 · תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?Jeremiah 51:64 · תִּשְׁקַ֨עThen you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.Amos 8:8 · וְנִשְׁקְעָ֖הWill not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.Amos 9:5 · וְשָׁקְעָ֖הThe Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—