STRONGS NUMBER H8257


Word Summary
shaqa: to sink, sink down
Original Word: שָׁקַע
Transliteration: shaqa
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sink, sink down
Meaning: to subside, to be overflowed, cease, to abate, subdue
Strong's Concordance
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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8257. shaqa

[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 וַתִּשְׁקַעNumbers 11:2 (JE), of fire, it sunk down, died out; תִּשְׁקַעJeremiah 51:64, of Babylon (like stone in water; opposed to קוּם‎).

Niph`al3feminine singular נִשְׁקְעָהAmos 8:8 Qr, of land, sink (opposed to עָלָה‎; =

Qal Amos 9:5; Kt erroneous נשקה‎, compare WSG287).

Hiph`il Imperfect1singular מֵימֵיהֶם אַשְׁקִיעַEzekiel 32:14 I will make their waters sink, (settle, grow clear); 2 masculine singular לְשׁוֺנוֺ תַּשְׁקִיעַ וּחְֶבֶל‎ 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 = חבשׁbind).