# שָׁכַךְ (shakhakh)

Israeli respelling: sha-khakh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7918. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

to weave (i.e. lay) a trap; figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to allay (passions; physically, abate a flood)

King James renderings: appease, assuage, make to cease, pacify, set.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shakhakh-h7918

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/8/1) — And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the eart…
- [Numbers 17:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/17/5) — And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the c…
- [Esther 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/1) — After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed agains…
- [Esther 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/10) — So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- [Jeremiah 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/26) — For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.