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Strong's #7817: shachach (pronounced shaw-khakh')

a primitive root; to sink or depress (reflexive or causative):--bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâchach

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

Job 9:13: "his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under"
Job 38:40: "When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?"
Psalms 10:10: "He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones."
Psalms 35:14: "I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother."
Psalms 38:6: "I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day"
Psalms 42:5: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for"
Psalms 42:6: "O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land"
Psalms 42:11: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God:"
Psalms 43:5: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God:"
Psalms 107:39: "Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow."
Proverbs 14:19: "The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous."
Ecclesiastes 12:4: "and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;"
Isaiah 2:9: "And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not."
Isaiah 2:11: "shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that"
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"
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 25:12: "And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to"
Isaiah 26:5: "For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low,"
Isaiah 29:4: "and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice"
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"
Habakkuk 3:6: "were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting."









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