Lexicon shaqa: to sink, sink down Original Word: שָׁקַעPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: shaqa Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kah') Short Definition: died NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto sink, sink down NASB Translationdied (1), press down (1), settle (1), sink down (1), subside (1), subsides (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ שָׁקַע] verb sink, sink down (so Late Hebrew שָׁקַע, Aramaic שְׁקַע; Arabic has  be smitten, prostrated, collapse ); — Qal Perfect3feminine singular consecutive וְשָֽׁקְעָה; Amos 9:5 it shall sink like the Nile (of land; opposed to עָלַה); 3 feminine singular וַתִּשְׁקַע Numbers 11:2 (JE), of fire, it sunk down, died out; תִּשְׁקַע Jeremiah 51:64, of Babylon (like stone in water; opposed to קוּם). Niph`al3feminine singular נִשְׁקְעָה Amos 8:8 Qr, of land, sink (opposed to עָלָה; = Qal Amos 9:5; Kt erroneous נשקה, compare WSG287). Hiph`il Imperfect1singular אַשְׁקִיעַ מֵימֵיהֶם Ezekiel 32:14 I will make their waters sink, (settle, grow clear); 2 masculine singular וּחְֶבֶל תַּשְׁקִיעַ לְשׁוֺנוֺ Job 40:25 with a cord wilt thou make his tongue sink (? pull or press it down; of crocodile; MichSuppl,2349 cited Thes 1477, compare Samaritan  = חבשׁ bind).
Strong's make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink (abbreviated Am. 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue -- make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink. |
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