# H8257 שָׁקַע

שָׁקַע (shâqaʻ), Strong’s H8257: to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue KJV: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.. Occurs 5 times.

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*shâqaʻ* — to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue

KJV: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שָׁקַע] vb. sink, sink down
- Qal it shall sink; it sank down
- Niph. sink
- Hiph. I will make their waters sink

## Where it occurs
- [Numbers 11:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=2) — The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.
- [Jeremiah 51:64](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=64) — Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and…
- [Ezekiel 32:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/32?v=14) — Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil,” says the Lord GOD.
- [Amos 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/9?v=5) — For the Lord, GOD of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will…
- [Job 40:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/40?v=25) — “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?