Quick Definition
to bow
Strong's Definition
to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.
TWOT Reference: 2361
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
שָׁחַח (sha.chach) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · שַׁח
Grieve | verb qal
Collocation: נֶפֶשׁ שׁחח
to be in distress literally: (one's) self is low; hence: = process by which humans experience grief
End | verb qal | ≈ שׁפל | ≠ גֵּאֶה · גַּבְהוּת · רוּם
to be brought down, to be humbled literally: to be brought low; hence: = process by which human pride is brought to an end, which often becomes visible in their attitude and appearance
Impact | verb hif | ≈ שׁפל
to bring down literally: to bring low; hence: = causative action by which deities cause high and imposing objects to become low ◄ by making them fall or collapse; ≈ associated with a loss of status
Insignificant | verb hif | ≈ שׁפל
to humble, to humiliate literally: to bring low; hence: = causative process by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to lose their high status within a community
Insignificant | verb qal | ≈ שׁפל
to be humbled, to be humiliated literally: to be brought low; hence: = process by which humans lose their high status within a community
Lax | verb nif
to become low, to fade away literally: to become low; hence: = process by which an event is reduced in intensity
Stance | verb qal
to sink down literally: to become low; hence: = process by which humans are unable to maintain a standing position and are forced down to the ground
Stance | verb qal
to lie down, to crouch literally: to make oneself low; hence: = action by which animals assume a horizontal position
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[שָׁחַח] vb. bow, be bowed down, crouch Qal be bowed down, prostrated, humbled
bow in homage
bow, of mourner
crouch, of wild beast in lair
Niph. be prostrated, humbled
Hiph. prostrate, lay low, city, walls, etc.
Hithpō‛. be cast down, despairing
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