King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8257
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
Word Summary
shaqa: to sink, sink down
Original Word: שָׁקַעTransliteration: 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 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 מֵימֵיהֶם אַשְׁקִיעַ Ezekiel 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 = חבשׁ bind).