# H7918 שָׁכַךְ

שָׁכַךְ (shâkak), Strong’s H7918: to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood) KJV: appease, assuage, make to cease…

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*shâkak* — to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood)

KJV: appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁכַךְ] vb. decrease, abate
- Qal the waters abated
- Hiph. I will allay from upon me the murmurings

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=1) — God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…
- [Numbers 17:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/17?v=20) — It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of…
- [Jeremiah 5:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=26) — For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
- [Esther 2:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/2?v=1) — After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and…
- [Esther 7:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/7?v=10) — So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.