Definition
(abbreviated Amos 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue
Traditional renderings: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
Traditional renderings: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders שָׁקַע:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5 total
- Numbers 11:2וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע · died downAnd the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
- Job 41:1תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- Jeremiah 51:64תִּשְׁקַ֨ע · will sinkThen you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezekiel 32:14אַשְׁקִ֣יעַ · settleThen I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Amos 9:5וְשָׁקְעָ֖ה · then sinksThe Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—