tava · sink

What it means

tava (טָבַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sink”.

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 go to the bottom, to be sunk in water or mud.
2. To be driven in and firm in place, like a foundation.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• have sunk ×4
• sank ×2
• sunk ×2
• sink ×1
• were settled ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1

• Exodus 15:4

  Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has cast into the sea; and his choicest captains were sunk in the Sea of Reeds.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  David stretched out his hand to the bag and took from there a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

• Job 38:6

  On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone,

• Psalms 9:15

  The nations have sunk into the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their foot has been caught.

• Psalms 69:2

  I have sunk in the mire of the depths, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the current sweeps me away.

• Psalms 69:14

  Deliver me from the mud, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me and from 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 threw him into the cistern of Malchijah son of the king, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with ropes. In the cistern there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

• Jeremiah 38:22

  Look, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah are being brought out to the princes of the king of Babylon, and they are saying, ‘They have incited you and prevailed over you, your men of peace; your feet have sunk in the mire; they have turned back.’

• Lamentations 2:9

  Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations; there is no instruction; even her prophets do not find a vision from YHWH.