Quick Definition
to bow
Strong's Definition
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
TWOT Reference: 2360
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁחָה (sha.chah) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אַחֲוָה
Speak | Know | verb pi | ≈ נגד
to tell, to inform, to impart, to show = causative action by which humans convey information to other humans through speech
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verb
Stance | verb qal
to bow down, to get down, to fall prostrate = action by which humans lay themselves flat on the ground
Bow | verb hishtaf'al, verb qal | ≈ ברך · כרע · נפל · סגד · קדד · שׁחח
to bow down, to worship literally: to bow down; hence: = action by which humans lay themselves down on the ground in front of another human or a deity, ► as an act of submission or respect
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Unsafe | verb hif
to weigh (someone) down literally: to cause to bow down; hence: = causative action in which circumstances cause humans to suffer hardship and trouble
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁחָה] 172 vb. bow down Qal bow down
Hiph. fig., anxiety depresses it
Hithpa‛lēl bow down, prostrate oneself, before a monarch or superior, in homage, etc.
before God, in worship
before other gods
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