Strong’s H8257 · Hebrew
שָׁקַע
shâqaʻ · shaw-kah'
Origin (abbreviated Amos 8:8); a primitive root;
Meaning to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue
In the King James Version make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Numbers 11:2And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
- Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
- Jeremiah 51:64And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Ezekiel 32:14Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
- Amos 8:8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
- Amos 9:5And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.