Lexical Summary shuach: to sink down Original Word: שׁוּחַTransliteration: shuach Phonetic Spelling: (shoo'-akh) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to sink down Meaning: to sink down Strong's Concordance bow down, incline, humble A primitive root; to sink, literally or figuratively -- bow down, incline, humble. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7743. shuach [שׁוּחַ] verb sink down (Buhl distinguishes this as II. ׳שׁ (Arabic () sink down, MI9, 23 אשוח probably depression, excavation, reservoir, so אשיךְ Ecclus 50:3), and hence שָׁ֫חָה Proverbs 2:18, si vera lectio, and following derivatives, from I.׳שׁ melt away Arabic () flow and spread, melt away, Ethiopic cause to dwindle, phthisis, Aramaic שׁוּחַ, flow or melt away, vanish), whence Lamentations 3:20; Psalm 44:26; but insufficient evidence for I.׳שׁ in Hebrew); — sink down, Qal Perfect3feminine singular נַפְשֵׁנוּ לֶעָפָר שָׁ֫חָה Psalm 44:26 ("" לָאָרֶץ דָּֽבְקָה); ׳שׁ בֵּיתָהּ אֶלמָֿוֶת Proverbs 2:18 ("" אֶלרְֿפָאִים; but ׳ב masculine, read שָׁחָה, √ שׁחה, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 82, so Toy); Imperfect3feminine singular נַפְשִׁי עָלַי תָּשׁוּחַ Lamentations 3:20 Qr, Hiph`il declar. תָּשִׁיחַ Kt, of depression of mind. — Psalm 49:15 Gr reads שָׁחוּ for שַׁתּוּ ᵑ0 but see שׁתת. — Hithpa`el Psalm 42; 43see שׁחח. |