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title: שׁיח — sink down · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שׁיח (lemma:שׁיח), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: sink down. BDB 1906: vb. sink down. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שׁיח

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«שׁיח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sink down** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** lemma:שׁיח · **BDB:** שׁוּחַ

### Glosses

are.you.bowed.down (3); it.has.sunk.down (1); it.is.bowed.down (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sink down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5d9_5d7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. sink down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5d9_5d7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sink down (Buhl disting. this as II. שׁ׳ (Arabic وَاخَ (و) sink down, MI 9. 23 אשוח prob. depression, excavation, reservoir, so אשיח Ecclus 50:3), and hence שָׁ֫חָה Pr 2:18, si vera l., and foll. deriv., from I. שׁ׳ melt away (Arabic ساح (ى) flow and spread, melt away, Ethiopic ሴሐ: I. 2 cause to dwindle, ሲሕ: phthisis, Aramaic שׁוּחַ, ܫܳܚ flow or melt away, vanish), whence La 3:20 ψ 44:26; but insuff. evidence for I. שׁ׳ in Heb.);—sink down, Pf. 3 fs. שָׁ֫חָה לֶעָפָר נַפְשֵׁנוּ ψ 44:26 (‖ דָּֽבְקָה לָאָרֶץ); שׁ׳ אֶל־מָוֶת בֵּיתָהּ Pr 2:18 (‖ אֶל־רְפָאִים; but ב׳ masc., read שָׁחָה, √ שׁחה, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 82, so Toy); Impf. 3 fs. תָּשׁוּחַ עָלַי נַפְשִׁי La 3:26 Qr, declar. תָּשִׁיחַ Kt, of depression of mind.—ψ 49:15 Gr reads שָׁחוּ for MT שַׁתּוּ but v. שׁתת.— ψ 42, 43 v. שׁחח.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שׁיח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5c1_5d9_5d7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 44:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.26/)

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כִּ֤י שָׁ֣חָה לֶעָפָ֣ר נַפְשֵׁ֑נוּ דָּבְקָ֖ה לָאָ֣רֶץ בִּטְנֵֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.has.sunk.down to the dust self our it.has.clung to the earth belly our

*JPS 1917:* For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

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[Psalms 42:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.6/)

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מַה־תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ וַתֶּהֱמִ֪י עָ֫לָ֥י הוֹחִ֣ילִי לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים כִּי־ע֥וֹד אוֹדֶ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּע֥וֹת פָּנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* why? are.you.bowed.down my.soul my and were.you.in.turmoil? on me wait for God (dm) again I will.give.thanks.to.him the.salvation(s) his.presence his

*JPS 1917:* Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.

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