shaka · sink, die down

What it means

shaka (שָׁקַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sink, die down”.

Sink, go down; of a fire, die down.

How to say it

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

1. To sink to the bottom, settle down like water, or die out like a fire.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sink ×2
• I will make settle ×1
• died down ×1
• press down ×1
• sinks ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×2

• Numbers 11:2

  And the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to YHWH, and the fire died down.

• Job 41:1

  Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or with a cord press down its tongue?

• Jeremiah 51:64

  and say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink and not rise because of the evil that I am bringing upon her; and they will grow weary.’” Thus far the words of Jeremiah.

• Ezekiel 32:14

  Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers like oil I will make flow, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Amos 8:8

  Will not the earth tremble on account of this, and everyone who lives in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

• Amos 9:5

  And Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is the one who touches the earth, and it melts, and all who live in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks like the Nile of Egypt;