Strong's Hebrew · H2883

טָבַע

ṭâbaʻ · taw-bah'

drown, fasten, settle, sink.

Definition

to sink

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 10 times in Scripture

Psalms 9:15

The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Jeremiah 38:22

All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’

Psalms 69:2

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Exodus 15:4

Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

1 Samuel 17:49

Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

Psalms 69:14

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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