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It is used metaphorically to describe a state of being low or humbled, often in a spiritual or emotional sense.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In ancient Israel, the landscape was dotted with various natural and man-made depressions, such as cisterns, pits, and ditches, which were essential for water collection and storage in the arid climate. These physical features often served as metaphors in Hebrew literature and scripture, symbolizing states of despair, humility, or entrapment. The imagery of being in a "pit" is frequently used in the Psalms to describe a place of distress or divine testing, from which one seeks deliverance by God.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>a prim. root<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>to sink down<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>bowed down (1), sinks down (1), sunk down (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Brown-Driver-Briggs</div> [<font class="hebrew2">שׁוּחַ</font>] <font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>verb</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>sink down</b></font> (Buhl distinguishes this as II. <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">שׁ</font> (Arabic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb100102.gif"> (<img src="/bdbgif/bdb100103.gif">) <em>sink down</em>, MI<sup>9, 23</sup> <font class="hebrew2">אשוח</font> probably <em>depression, excavation, reservoir</em>, so <font class="hebrew2">אשיךְ</font> Ecclus 50:3), and hence <font class="hebrew2">שָׁ֫חָה</font> <a href="/interlinear/proverbs/2-18.htm">Proverbs 2:18</a>, si vera lectio, and following derivatives, from I.<font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">שׁ</font> <em>melt away</em> Arabic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb100104.gif"> (<img src="/bdbgif/bdb100105.gif">) <em>flow and spread, melt away</em>, Ethiopic <img src="/bdbgif/bdb100106.gif"> <em>cause to dwindle</em>, <img src="/bdbgif/bdb100107.gif"> <em>phthisis</em>, Aramaic <font class="hebrew2">שׁוּחַ</font>, <img src="/bdbgif/bdb100108.gif"> <em>flow</em> or <em>melt away, vanish</em>), whence <a href="/interlinear/lamentations/3-20.htm">Lamentations 3:20</a>; <a href="/interlinear/psalms/44-26.htm">Psalm 44:26</a>; but insufficient evidence for I.<font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">שׁ</font> in Hebrew); — <em>sink down</em>, <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>Qal</b></font> <em>Perfect</em>3feminine singular <font class="hebrew2">שָׁ֫חָה לֶעָפָר נַפְשֵׁנוּ</font> <a href="/interlinear/psalms/44-26.htm">Psalm 44:26</a> ("" <font class="hebrew2">דָּֽבְקָה לָאָרֶץ</font>); <font class="hebrew2">אֶלמָֿוֶת בֵּיתָהּ</font> <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">שׁ</font> <a href="/interlinear/proverbs/2-18.htm">Proverbs 2:18</a> ("" <font class="hebrew2">אֶלרְֿפָאִים</font>; but <font class="hebrew2">׳</font><font class="hebrew2">ב</font> masculine, read <font class="hebrew2">שָׁחָה</font>, √ <font class="hebrew2">שׁחה</font>, Albr<sup>ZAW xvi (1896), 82</sup>, so Toy); <em>Imperfect</em>3feminine singular <font class="hebrew2">תָּשׁוּחַ עָלַי נַפְשִׁי</font> <a href="/interlinear/lamentations/3-20.htm">Lamentations 3:20</a> Qr, <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>Hiph`il</b></font> <font size="+1"><b>declar.</b></font> <font class="hebrew2">תָּשִׁיחַ</font> Kt, of depression of mind. — <a href="/interlinear/psalms/49-15.htm">Psalm 49:15</a> Gr reads <font class="hebrew2">שָׁחוּ</font> for <font class="hebrew2">ᵑ0</font> <font class="hebrew2">שַׁתּוּ</font> but see <font class="hebrew2">שׁתת</font>. — <p><font size="+1" color="#552200"><b>Hithpa`el</b></font> <a href="/interlinear/psalms/42.htm">Psalm 42</a>; 43see <font class="hebrew2">שׁחח</font>. <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft2.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>bow down, incline, humble <p>A primitive root; to sink, literally or figuratively -- bow down, incline, humble. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>וְתָשֹׁ֥וחַ ותשוח שָׁ֣חָה שחה šā·ḥāh šāḥāh Shachah vetaShoach wə·ṯā·šō·w·aḥ wəṯāšōwaḥ<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/psalms/44-25.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Psalm 44:25</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/44.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3"> כִּ֤י <b> שָׁ֣חָה </b> לֶעָפָ֣ר נַפְשֵׁ֑נוּ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/psalms/44.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> For our soul <span class="itali">has sunk down</span> into the dust;<br><a href="/kjvs/psalms/44.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> For our soul <span class="itali">is bowed down</span> to the dust:<br><a href="/interlinear/psalms/44-25.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> for <span class="itali">has sunk</span> the dust our soul<p><b><a href="/text/proverbs/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Proverbs 2:18</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/proverbs/2.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3"> כִּ֤י <b> שָׁ֣חָה </b> אֶל־ מָ֣וֶת</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/proverbs/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> For her house <span class="itali">sinks down</span> to death<br><a href="/kjvs/proverbs/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> For her house <span class="itali">inclineth</span> unto death,<br><a href="/interlinear/proverbs/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> for <span class="itali">sinks</span> to death<p><b><a href="/text/lamentations/3-20.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Lamentations 3:20</a> </b><br><a href="/interlinear/lamentations/3.htm" title="Hebrew">HEB:</a> <span class="hebrew3">[וְתָשִׁיחַ כ] <b> (וְתָשֹׁ֥וחַ </b> ק) עָלַ֖י</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/lamentations/3.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> remembers <span class="itali">And is bowed down</span> within<br><a href="/kjvs/lamentations/3.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> in remembrance, <span class="itali">and is humbled</span> in me.<br><a href="/interlinear/lamentations/3-20.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> Surely remembers <span class="itali">bow down</span> within my soul<p><i><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7743.htm">3 Occurrences</a></i><br /><br /><b><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7743.htm">Strong's Hebrew 7743<br>3 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/hebrew/shachah_7743.htm">šā·ḥāh — 2 Occ.</a><br><a href="/hebrew/vetashoach_7743.htm">wə·ṯā·šō·w·aḥ — 1 Occ.</a><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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