Genesis 33:6

¹And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.²And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.³And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.⁴And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.⁵And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.⁶Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.⁷And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.⁸And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.⁹And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.¹⁰And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.¹¹Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.¹²And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.¹³And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.¹⁴Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.¹⁵And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.¹⁶So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.¹⁷And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.¹⁸And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.¹⁹And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.²⁰And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

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Verse	KJV	BSB	ASV
6	Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.	Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.	Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
and they approached	וַתִּגַּ֧שְׁןָ	va-ti-GASH-na	H5066G	to approach: approach נָגַשׁ (na.gash) : approach 1) to draw near, approach 1a) (Qal) to draw or come near 1a1) of humans 1a1a) of sexual intercourse 1a2) of inanimate subject 1a2a) to approach one another 1b) (Niphal) to draw near 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to approach, bring near, bring 1d) (Hophal) to be brought near 1e) (Hithpael) to draw near Also means: na.gash (נָגַשׁ ": bring" H5066H)
the maidservants	הַשְּׁפָח֛וֹת	ha-she-fa-CHOT	H8198	maidservant שִׁפְחָה (shiph.chah) 1) maid, maid-servant, slavegirl 1a) maid, maid-servant (as belonging to a mistress) 1b) of address, speaker, humility (fig)
they	הֵ֥נָּה	HE-nah	H2007	they(fem.) הֵנָּה (hen.nah) they, these, the same, who A grammatical form of hu (הוּא "he/she/it" H1931)
and children their	וְיַלְדֵיהֶ֖ן	ve-yal-dei-HEN	H3206	youth יֶ֫לֶד (ye.led) 1) child, son, boy, offspring, youth 1a) child, son, boy 1b) child, children 1c) descendants 1d) youth 1e) apostate Israelites (fig.)
and they bowed down	וַתִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶֽיןָ׃	va-TISH-ta-cha-VEI-na	H7812	to bow שָׁחָה (sha.chah) 1) to bow down 1a) (Qal) to bow down 1b)(Hiphil) to depress (fig) 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to bow down, prostrate oneself 1c1a) before superior in homage 1c1b) before God in worship 1c1c) before false gods 1c1d) before angel

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.