To bow
שָׁחָהStrong’s H7812shachah (sha-chah)
Appears in 166 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowed down”, “bow down” and “must bow down”. It appears in 166 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.”
Meaning
- To bow down(Qal) to bow down · (Hiphil) to depress (fig) · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- and he bowed down 40
- and they bowed down 28
- to bow down 14
- and you will bow down 9
- you must bow down 7
- and she bowed down 7
- bowing down 6
- you will bow down 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 21
- Psalms 17
- Isaiah 14
- 2 Samuel 13
- 1 Samuel 12
- Exodus 11
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:17In contextAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
- Genesis 18:2And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
- Genesis 19:1And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
- Genesis 22:5And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
- Genesis 23:7And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
- Genesis 23:12And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
All 166 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁחָה shachah · to bow
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOW, verb transitive
- To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines.
- To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head.
- To bend or incline towards, in condescension.
- To depress; to crush; to subdue.
All definitions and other forms of “bow”
BOW, verb intransitive
To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down.
- To stoop; to fall upon the knees.
- To sink under pressure.
BOW, noun
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
BOW, noun
[See bow to bend.]
An instrument of war, and hunting, made of wood, or other elastic matter, with a string fastened to each end. The bow being bent by drawing the string, and suddenly returning to its natural state by its elastic force, throws an arrow to a great distance, and with force sufficient to kill an animal. It is of two kinds, the long-bow, and the cross-bow, arbalest or arbalest. The use of the bow is called archery.
- Any thing bent, or in form of a curve; the rainbow; the doubling of a string in a knot; the part of a yoke which embraces the neck; etc.
- A small machine, formed with a stick and hairs, which being drawn over the strings of an instrument of music, causes it to sound.
- A beam of wood or brass, with three long screws that direct a lathe of wood or steel to any arch; used in forming drafts of ships, and projections of the sphere, or wherever it is necessary to draw large arches.
- An instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea, consisting of a large arch of ninety degrees graduated, a shank or staff, a side-vane, a sight-vane, and a horizon-vane; now disused.
- An instrument in use among smiths for turning a drill; with turners, for turning wood; with hatters, for breaking fur and wool.
- Bows of a saddle, are the two pieces of wood laid archwise to receive the upper part of a horse's back, to give the saddle its due form, and to keep it tight.
- bow of a ship, is the rounding part of her side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close, at the stem or prow.
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.