Strong's #7918: shakak (pronounced shaw-kak')

a primitive root; to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood):--appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâkak

1) to subside, abate, decrease

1a) (Qal) to abate

1b) (Hiphil) to allay

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 8:1: "over the earth, and the waters assuaged;"
Numbers 17:5: "whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings"
Esther 2:1: "when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what"
Esther 7:10: "for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified."
Jeremiah 5:26: "are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch"