טָבַע ṭâbaʻ — to sink
Translated in the KJV as drown, fasten, settle, sink.
a primitive root; to sink.
ṭâbaʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 2Cohortative 1
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
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 ›