שָׁקַע shâqaʻ

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.

Derivation: (abbreviated Amos 8:8); a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Numbers 11:2 And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
• Job 41:1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
• Jeremiah 51:64 Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
• Ezekiel 32:14 Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
• Amos 8:8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
• Amos 9:5 The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—