טָבַע tava

Hebrew word for “to sink” · Strong’s H2883 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

1) to sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tava in context, with how often each is used:

• have sunk 3
• sank 2
• sunk 2
• have been sunk 1
• sink 1
• planted 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 69 (2), Jeremiah 38 (2), Exodus 15 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 9 (1), Proverbs 8 (1), Lamentations 2 (1)

Forms

• טבעו 3
• הטבעו 3
• ותטבע 1
• טבעתי 1
• אטבעה 1
• ויטבע 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tava more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַעֲמַקִּים maamaq “deep” 2
• טִיט tit “mud” 2
• יָרָה yarah “to show” 2
• מַי mayim “water” 3
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 3
• רֶגֶל regel “foot” 2
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 2
• שַׂר sar “ruler” 2
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 2
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 2

Key verses

The verses using tava that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 15:4 — Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
• 1 Samuel 17:49 — 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…
• Job 38:6 — Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
• Psalms 9:15 — The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Psalms 69:2 — I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Psalms 69:14 — Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
• Proverbs 8:25 — Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
• Jeremiah 38:6 — Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with…
• Jeremiah 38:22 — 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…
• Lamentations 2:9 — Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.