To bend (down)
גָּהַרStrong’s H1457gahar (ga-har)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gahar is the Hebrew word usually translated “crouched”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,”
Meaning
- (Qal) to bend, crouch
How it's translated
- and he crouched 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 4:34And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
- 2 Kings 4:35Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּהַר gahar · to bend (down)
(Qal) to bend, crouch
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crouch” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CROUCH, verb intransitive
[G., to creep, to stoop, to cringe.]
- To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground; as an animal.
- To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.“Every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of bread” 1 Samuel 2:36
All definitions and other forms of “crouch”
CROUCH, verb transitive
[See Cross.]
To sign with the cross; to bless. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.