Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
the Fourth Week after Easter
the Fourth Week after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Dictionaries
Sink
King James Dictionary
or Resource Toolbox
Additional Links
SINK, 5 1 pret. sunk pp. id. The old pret. sank is nearly obsolete.
1. To fall by the force of greater gravity, in a medium or substance of less specific gravity to subside opposed to swim or float. Some species of wood or timber will sink in water. Oil will not sink in water and many other liquids, for it is specifically lighter. I sink in deep mire. Ps. 69.
2. To fall gradually. He sunk down in his chariot, 2 Kings 9 .
3. To enter or penetrate into any body. The stone sunk into his forehead. I Sam. 17.
4. To fall to become lower to subside or settle to a level. The Alps and Pyrenees sink before him.
5. To be overwhelmed or depressed. Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
6. To enter deeply to be impressed. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Luke 9 .
7. To become deep to retire or fall within the surface of any thing as, the eyes sink into the head.
8. To fall to decline to decay to decrease. A free state gradually sinks into ruin. It is the duty of government to revive a sinking commerce. Let not the fire sink or slacken.
9. To fall into rest or indolence as, to sink away in pleasing dreams.
10. To be lower to fall as, the price of land will sink in time of peace.
SINK,
1. To put under water to immerse in a fluid as, to sink a ship.
2. To make by digging or delving as, to sink a pit or a well.
3. To depress to degrade. His vices sink him in infamy, or in public estimation.
4. To plunge into destruction. If I have a conscience, let it sink me.
5. To cause to fall or to be plunged.
6. To bring low to reduce in quantity. You sunk the river with repeated draughts.
7. To depress to overbear to crush. This would sink the spirit of a hero.
8. To diminish to lower or lessen to degrade. I mean not that we should sink our figure out of covetousness.
9. To cause to decline or fail. Thy cruel and unnat'ral lust of power has sunk thy father more than all his years.
10. To suppress to conceal to intervert. If sent with ready money to buy any thing, and you happen to be out of pocket, sink the money, and take up the goods on account. Unusual.
11. To depress to lower in value or amount. Great importations may sink the price of goods.
12. To reduce to pay to diminish or annihilate by payment as, to sink the nation debt.
13. To waste to dissipate as, to sink an estate.
SINK, n.
1. A drain to carry off filthy water a jakes.
2. A kind of bason of stone or wood to receive filthy water.
Copyright Statement
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Sink'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sink.html.
Entry for 'Sink'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sink.html.
