שָׁחָהshâchâh
bow down
Pronunciation: shaw-khaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7812
Meanings
Qal: bow down. (Isaiah 51:23)
Hiph`il: depresses it (Proverbs 12:25)
Hithpa`lel
1. bow down, prostrate oneself, before a monarch or superior, in homage, etc.
2. before God, in worship, etc.
c. after off (1 Samuel 1:28; 1 Samuel 15:25; Jeremiah 7:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 172 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
- Genesis 19:1 That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
- Genesis 22:5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
- Genesis 23:7 Then Abraham bowed low before the Hittites
- Genesis 23:12 Abraham again bowed low before the citizens of the land,
- Genesis 24:26 The man bowed low and worshiped the Lord.
See every passage
- Genesis 18:2, 19:1, 22:5, 23:7, 23:12, 24:26, 24:48, 24:52, 27:29, 33:3, 33:6, 33:7, 37:7, 37:9, 37:10, 42:6, 43:26, 43:28, 47:31, 48:12, 49:8
- Exodus 4:31, 11:8, 12:27, 18:7, 20:5, 23:24, 24:1, 32:8, 33:10, 34:8, 34:14
- Leviticus 26:1
- Numbers 22:31, 25:2
- Deuteronomy 4:19, 5:9, 8:19, 11:16, 17:3, 26:10, 29:26, 30:17
- Joshua 5:14, 23:7, 23:16
- Judges 2:12, 2:17, 2:19, 7:15
- Ruth 2:10
- 1 Samuel 1:3, 1:19, 1:28, 2:36, 15:25, 15:30, 15:31, 20:41, 24:8, 25:23, 25:41, 28:14
- 2 Samuel 1:2, 9:6, 9:8, 12:20, 14:4, 14:22, 14:33, 15:5, 15:32, 16:4, 18:21, 18:28, 24:20
- 1 Kings 1:16, 1:23, 1:31, 1:47, 1:53, 2:19, 9:6, 9:9, 11:33, 16:31, 22:53
- 2 Kings 2:15, 4:37, 5:18, 17:16, 17:35, 17:36, 18:22, 19:37, 21:3, 21:21
- 1 Chronicles 16:29, 21:21, 29:20
- 2 Chronicles 7:3, 7:19, 7:22, 20:18, 24:17, 25:14, 29:28, 29:29, 29:30, 32:12, 33:3
- Nehemiah 8:6, 9:3, 9:6
- Esther 3:2, 3:5
- Job 1:20
- Psalms 5:7, 22:27, 22:29, 29:2, 45:11, 66:4, 72:11, 81:9, 86:9, 95:6, 96:9, 97:7, 99:5, 99:9, 106:19, 132:7, 138:2
- Proverbs 12:25
- Isaiah 2:8, 2:20, 27:13, 36:7, 37:38, 44:15, 44:17, 45:14, 46:6, 49:7, 49:23, 51:23, 60:14, 66:23
- Jeremiah 1:16, 7:2, 8:2, 13:10, 16:11, 22:9, 25:6, 26:2
- Ezekiel 8:16, 46:2, 46:3, 46:9
- Micah 5:13
- Zephaniah 1:5, 2:11
- Zechariah 14:16, 14:17
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).