- Original: שׁקע - Transliteration: Shaqa` - Phonetic: shaw-kah' - Definition: 1. to sink, sink down, subside a. (Qal) to sink b. (Niphal) to sink, collapse c. (Hiphil) to sink down, cause to settle - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2456 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: (Abbreviated in Amos 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication to be overflowed cease; causatively to abate subdue: - make deep let down drown quench sink. Total KJV Occurrences: 6 • deep, 1 Ezekiel 32:14 • down, 1 Job 41:1 • drowned, 2 Amos 8:8; Amos 9:5 • quenched, 1 Numbers 11:2 • sink, 1 Jeremiah 51:64