שָׁחַח shachach
Hebrew word for “to bow” · Strong’s H7817 · used 21 times in 21 verses
Meaning
1) to bow, crouch, bow down, be bowed down;
How it is translated
Glosses given for shachach in context, with how often each is used:
- bowed down 6
- will be humbled 3
- has been humbled 2
- will lay low 2
- lay prostrate 1
- will crouch 1
- bowed 1
- bent over 1
- bow 1
- may be reduced 1
- bowing down 1
- have bowed down 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Psalms 42 (3), Isaiah 2 (3), Job 9 (1), Job 38 (1), Psalms 10 (1), Psalms 35 (1), Psalms 38 (1), Psalms 43 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Proverbs 14 (1)
Forms
- תשׁתוחחי 3
- וישׁחו 2
- שׁחו 2
- וישׁח 2
- ושׁח 2
- השׁח 2
- שׁחחו 1
- ישׁחו 1
- ישׁח 1
- שׁחותי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shachach more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁפֵל shaphel “to abase” 8
- שָׂגַב sagav “to exalt” 3
- הָמָה hamah “to roar” 3
- יָחַל yachal “to wait” 3
- גַּבְהוּת gavhut “haughtiness” 2
- יְשׁוּעָה yeshuah “salvation” 3
- רוּם rum “height” 2
- עָפָר aphar “dust” 3
- יָדָה yadah “to give thanks” 3
- אָדָם adam “man” 4
- קָדַר qadar “be dark” 2
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 4
Key verses
The verses using shachach that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 42:5 — Why 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 42:6 — O 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.
- Psalms 42:11 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance,…
- Psalms 43:5 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my…
- Psalms 107:39 — Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
- Isaiah 2:11 — The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 2:17 — And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 5:15 — And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
- Isaiah 26:5 — For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
- 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…
- Habakkuk 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways…
See all 21 verses in the Word Atlas
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.