to sink
sha.qa describes going down or subsiding, and once portrays causing waters to go down.
The attested uses portray a downward movement or subsiding: land rises and then goes down, Babylon goes down and does not rise again, and fire subsides. One causative use portrays the speaker bringing waters down.
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Going down or subsiding · dominant
The Qal forms in Amos 9:5, Jeremiah 51:64, and Numbers 11:2 occur where land, Babylon, and fire respectively go down or subside; in Numbers 11:2 the APB renders the result, “the fire subsided.” Amos 8:8 likewise uses a Niphal sequential perfect when the land’s Nile-like rising is followed by its subsiding again.
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Causing waters to go down · rare
In Ezekiel 32:14, the first-person common singular Hiphil imperfect occurs in a declaration concerning “their waters”; the APB renders the clause, “Then I will sink their waters.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the clauses with “subsides,” “sinks,” and “will sink their waters.” These renderings indicate the clauses’ overall presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.