שָׁחָה shachah

Hebrew word for “to bow” · Strong’s H7812 · used 172 times in 166 verses

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Meaning

1) to bow down; 1a) (Qal) to bow down;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shachah in context, with how often each is used:

• bowed down 80
• bow down 28
• will bow down 26
• bowing down 9
• may bow down 8
• must bow down 7
• have bowed down 4
• may they bow down 2
• us bow down 2
• those who bow down 2
• has bowed down 1
• when bow down i 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 1 (5), Genesis 24 (3), Genesis 33 (3), Genesis 37 (3), Judges 2 (3), 1 Samuel 1 (3), 1 Samuel 15 (3), 2 Samuel 14 (3), 2 Kings 17 (3), 2 Chronicles 7 (3)

Forms

• וישׁתחו 42
• וישׁתחוו 35
• להשׁתחות 14
• והשׁתחוו 7
• ותשׁתחו 7
• ישׁתחוו 6
• תשׁתחוה 6
• תשׁתחוו 6
• והשׁתחויתם 5
• השׁתחוו 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shachah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עָבַד avad “to serve” 31
• קָדַד qadad “to bow” 15
• אַחֵר acher “another” 21
• אַף aph “face” 22
• הֶם hem “them” 27
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 21
• קוּם qum “to arise” 16
• אַחַר achar “after” 16
• אָב av “father” 17
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 12
• אָדוֹן adon “lord” 11
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 12

Key verses

The verses using shachah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 49:8 — Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
• Exodus 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto…
• Deuteronomy 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to…
• 1 Kings 16:31 — And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of…
• Psalms 22:27 — All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Isaiah 27:13 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the…
• Isaiah 45:14 — Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine:…
• Isaiah 49:7 — Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall…
• Isaiah 49:23 — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the…
• Isaiah 60:14 — The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and…
• Zephaniah 2:11 — The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of…
• Zechariah 14:16 — 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,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.