שָׁקַעshâqaʻ/shaw-kah'/
HebrewH82576 occurrences (KJV)
to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue
KJV renders it: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
Where it appears
- Num 11:2The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
- Job 41:1“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?
- Jer 51:64Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezek 32:14Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Amos 8:8Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
- Amos 9:5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.