Lexicon
שָׁקַע
sha.qa
H8257
H:V Hebrew

to sink

6
Occurrences
5
Books
Hebrew
Language

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.

Senses in use

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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Across Scripture