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Strong's #2883: taba` (pronounced taw-bah')

a primitive root; to sink:--drown, fasten, settle, sink.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ṭâba‛

1) to sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted

1a) (Qal) to sink, sink down

1b) (Pual) to be sunk

1c) (Hophal) to cause to sink

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

Exodus 15:4: "into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea."
1 Samuel 17:49: "the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon"
Job 38:6: "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner"
Psalms 9:15: "The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid"
Psalms 69:2: " I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep"
Psalms 69:14: "Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate"
Proverbs 8:25: "Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:"
Jeremiah 38:6: "but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire."
Jeremiah 38:22: "Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back."
Lamentations 2:9: "Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king"









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