Lexicon shuach: to sink down Original Word: שׁ֫וּחַPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: shuach Phonetic Spelling: (shoo'-akh) Short Definition: down NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto sink down NASB Translationbowed down (1), sinks down (1), sunk down (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ שׁוּחַ] verb sink down (Buhl distinguishes this as II. ׳שׁ (Arabic ( ) sink down, MI 9, 23 אשוח probably depression, excavation, reservoir, so אשיךְ Ecclus 50:3), and hence שָׁ֫חָה Proverbs 2:18, si vera lectio, and following derivatives, from I. ׳שׁ melt away Arabic ( ) flow and spread, melt away, Ethiopic cause to dwindle, phthisis, Aramaic שׁוּחַ, flow or melt away, vanish), whence Lamentations 3:20; Psalm 44:26; but insufficient evidence for I. ׳שׁ in Hebrew); — sink down, Qal Perfect3feminine singular שָׁ֫חָה לֶעָפָר נַפְשֵׁנוּ Psalm 44:26 ("" דָּֽבְקָה לָאָרֶץ); אֶלמָֿוֶת בֵּיתָהּ ׳שׁ Proverbs 2:18 ("" אֶלרְֿפָאִים; but ׳ב masculine, read שָׁחָה, √ שׁחה, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 82, so Toy); Imperfect3feminine singular תָּשׁוּחַ עָלַי נַפְשִׁי Lamentations 3:20 Qr, Hiph`il declar. תָּשִׁיחַ Kt, of depression of mind. — Psalm 49:15 Gr reads שָׁחוּ for ᵑ0 שַׁתּוּ but see שׁתת. — Hithpa`el Psalm 42; 43see שׁחח.
Strong's bow down, incline, humble A primitive root; to sink, literally or figuratively -- bow down, incline, humble. |
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