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To stoop

קָרַסStrong’s H7164

qaras (qa-ras)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Qaras is the Hebrew word usually translated “stooping low” and “have stooped low”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.”
Isaiah 46:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to bend down, stoop, crouch
How it's translated
  • stooping low 1
  • they have stooped low 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

קָרַס qaras · to stoop

(Qal) to bend down, stoop, crouch

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “stoop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

STOOP, verb intransitive

  1. To bend the body downward and forward; as, to stoop to pick up a book.
  2. To bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking.
  3. To yield; to submit; to bend by compulsion; as, Carthage at length stooped to Rome.
  4. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
All definitions and other forms of “stoop”
  1. To yield; to be inferior.
  2. To come down on prey, as a hawk.
  3. To alight from the wing.
  4. To sink to a lower place.

STOOP, verb transitive

  1. To cause to incline downward; to sink; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
  2. To cause to submit. [Little used.]

STOOP, noun

  1. The act of bending the body forward; inclination forward.
  2. Descent from dignity or superiority; condescension.
  3. Fall of a bird on his prey.
  4. In America, a kind of shed, generally open, but attached to a house; also, an open place for seats at a door.

STOOP, noun

  1. A vessel of liquor; as a stoop of wine or ale.
  2. A post fixed in the earth. [Local.]

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.