Strong's #8257: shaqa` (pronounced shaw-kah')

(abbreviated Am. 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue:--make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâqa‛

1) to sink, sink down, subside

1a) (Qal) to sink

1b) (Niphal) to sink, collapse

1c) (Hiphil) to sink down, cause to settle

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Numbers 11:2: "unto the LORD, the fire was quenched."
Job 41:1: "with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
Jeremiah 51:64: "And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from"
Ezekiel 32:14: "Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord"
Amos 8:8: "wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."
Amos 9:5: "and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."