שָׁקַע shâqaʻ — (abbreviated Amos 8:8)
Translated in the KJV as make deep, let down, drown, quench, sink.
(abbreviated Amos 8:8); a primitive root; to subside; by implication, to be overflowed, cease; causatively, to abate, subdue.
shâqaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›