מָכַךְ
machach · be brought low, sink
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4355 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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machach (מָכַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be brought low, sink”.
To sink, to collapse; to be brought low.
How to say it
ma·chach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To go down, collapse; fall into ruin.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sank low ×1
- sinks ×1
- they are brought low ×1
Where it appears
- Job 24:24
They are exalted a little while, and are gone; and they are brought low, like all they are gathered up, and like the heads of grain they wither.
- Psalms 106:43
Many times he would deliver them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity.
- Ecclesiastes 10:18
Through laziness the roof sinks, and through drooping hands the house leaks.