Makhakh מָכַךְ

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Makhakh (Hebrew מָכַךְ, Strong's H4355) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to sink”. It occurs 3 times in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to be low, be humiliated
1a) (Qal) to be low, be humiliated
1b) (Niphal) to sink
1c) (Hophal) to be brought low

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

KJV	low (2), decayeth (1)
BSB	they are brought low (1), sank down (1), caves (1)

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

Job 24:24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

Psalm 106:43
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 10:18
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

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.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).