טָבַע ṭâbaʻ

Meaning

to sink

In the King James Version: drown, fasten, settle, sink.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
• 1 Samuel 17:49 Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
• Job 38:6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,
• Psalms 9:15 The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
• Psalms 69:2 I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Psalms 69:14 Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
• Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
• Jeremiah 38:6 So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
• Jeremiah 38:22 All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
• Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.