To bow
שָׁחַחStrong’s H7817shachach (sha-chach)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachach is the Hebrew word usually translated “are you bowed down”, “has been humbled” and “it will be humbled”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.”
Meaning
- To bow, crouch, bow down, be bowed down(Qal) · (Niphal) to be prostrated, be humbled, be reduced, be weakened, proceed humbly, be bowed down · (Hiphil) to prostrate, lay low, bow down · (Hithpolel) to be cast down, be despairing
How it's translated
- are you bowed down 3
- and he has been humbled 2
- and it will be humbled 2
- he will lay low 2
- they lay prostrate 1
- they will crouch 1
- he is bowed down 1
- i bowed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Isaiah 8
- Job 2
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Habakkuk 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 38:40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
- Psalms 10:10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
- Psalms 35:14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Psalms 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁחַח shachach · to bow
1) to bow, crouch, bow down, be bowed down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be bowed down, be prostrated, be humbled 1a2) to bow (in homage) 1a3) to bow (of mourner) 1a4) to crouch (of wild beast in lair) 1b) (Niphal) to be prostrated, be humbled, be reduced, be weakened, proceed humbly, be bowed down 1c) (Hiphil) to prostrate, lay low, bow down 1d) (Hithpolel) to be cast down, be despairing
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.