Strong's #3766: kara` (pronounced kaw-rah')

a primitive root; to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate:--bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, X very.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâra‛

1) to bend, kneel, bow, bow down, sink down to one' s knees, kneel down to rest (of animals), kneel in reverence

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to bow

1a2) to bow down, crouch

1a3) to bow down over

1a4) to tilt, lean

1b) (Hiphil) to cause to bow

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Genesis 49:9: "from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;"
Numbers 24:9: " He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? is he that blesseth"
Judges 5:27: "At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at he bowed,"
Judges 5:27: "he lay down: at he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there"
Judges 5:27: "he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead."
Judges 7:5: "by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink."
Judges 7:6: "but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water."
Judges 11:35: "and said, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble"
Judges 11:35: "and said, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble"
1 Samuel 4:19: "and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came"
2 Samuel 22:40: "me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under"
1 Kings 8:54: "from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling from kneeling on his knees"
1 Kings 19:18: "the knees have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which"
2 Kings 1:13: "of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah,"
2 Kings 9:24: "and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot."
2 Chronicles 7:3: "of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement,"
2 Chronicles 29:29: "and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped."
Ezra 9:5: "from my heaviness; and having rent my garment I fell upon my knees, and spread out"
Esther 3:2: "that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king"
Esther 3:2: "had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence."
Esther 3:5: "saw that Mordecai bowed not, then was Haman full"
Job 4:4: "have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees."
Job 31:10: "grind unto another, and let others bow down upon"
Job 39:3: " They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows."
Psalms 17:13: "Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul"
Psalms 18:39: "For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up"
Psalms 20:8: "They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright."
Psalms 22:29: "all to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul."
Psalms 72:9: "They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust."
Psalms 78:31: "came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down men of Israel."
Psalms 95:6: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD"
Isaiah 10:4: "Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under For all"
Isaiah 45:23: "That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear."
Isaiah 46:1: "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were and upon the cattle:"
Isaiah 46:2: "They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver but themselves"
Isaiah 65:12: "Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because ye did not"