Tava טָבַע

Tava (Hebrew טָבַע, Strong's H2883) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to sink”. It occurs 10 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tava, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

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

1 Samuel

• 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 he fell upon his face to the earth.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.

Job

• Job 38:6
  Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Psalms

• Psalm 9:15
  The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
• Psalm 69:2
  I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Psalm 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.Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 8:25
  Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Jeremiah

• 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 cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.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.
• 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 friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.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.’

Lamentations

• 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 also find no vision from the Lord.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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).