# H2883 טָבַע

טָבַע (ṭâbaʻ), Strong’s H2883: to sink KJV: drown, fasten, settle, sink.. Occurs 10 times.

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*ṭâbaʻ* — to sink

KJV: drown, fasten, settle, sink.

Occurs 10 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- טָבַע vb. sink, sink down
- Qal sink, sink down, intrans.
- Pu. be sunk
- Hiph. be sunk; of pedestals of the earth, as settled, planted

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 15:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=4) — He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of Suf.
- [1 Samuel 17:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=49) — David put his hand in his bag, took a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank…
- [Jeremiah 38:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/38?v=6) — Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard…
- [Jeremiah 38:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/38?v=22) — ‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes…
- [Psalms 9:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/9?v=16) — The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
- [Psalms 69:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/69?v=3) — I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- [Psalms 69:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/69?v=15) — Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep…
- [Proverbs 8:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/8?v=25) — Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
- [Job 38:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/38?v=6) — What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone,
- [Lamentations 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/2?v=9) — Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the…