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Strong's #7812: shachah (pronounced shaw-khaw')

a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God):--bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâchâh

1) to bow down

1a) (Qal) to bow down

1b) (Hiphil) to depress (figuratively)

1c) (Hithpael)

1c1) to bow down, prostrate oneself

1c1a) before superior in homage

1c1b) before God in worship

1c1c) before false gods

1c1d) before angel

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 171 times:

1 Chronicles 16:29: "an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."
1 Chronicles 21:21: "and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground."
1 Chronicles 29:20: "God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped the LORD, and the king."
2 Chronicles 7:3: "to the ground upon the pavement, and worshiped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good;"
2 Chronicles 7:19: "and serve other gods, and worship"
2 Chronicles 7:22: "out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore"
2 Chronicles 20:18: "fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD."
2 Chronicles 24:17: "came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened"
2 Chronicles 25:14: "of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense"
2 Chronicles 29:28: "And all the congregation worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all"
2 Chronicles 29:29: "that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 29:30: "with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 32:12: "Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served"
Nehemiah 8:6: "with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground."
Nehemiah 9:3: "part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshiped the LORD their God."
Nehemiah 9:6: "them all; and the host of heaven worshipeth"
Esther 3:2: "were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so"
Esther 3:2: "bowed not, nor did him reverence."
Esther 3:5: "Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath."
Job 1:20: "his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshiped,"
Psalms 5:7: "in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple."
Psalms 22:27: "and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before"
Psalms 22:29: "they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow"
Psalms 29:2: "unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."
Psalms 45:11: "for he is thy Lord; and worship"
Psalms 66:4: "All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah."
Psalms 72:11: "Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve"
Psalms 81:9: "god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god."
Psalms 86:9: "whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name."
Psalms 95:6: "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker."
Psalms 96:9: " O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all"
Psalms 97:7: "graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods."
Psalms 99:5: "Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy."
Psalms 99:9: "Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD"
Psalms 106:19: "They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image."
Psalms 132:7: "We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool."
Psalms 138:2: " I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for"
Proverbs 12:25: "Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad."
Isaiah 2:8: "Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers"
Isaiah 2:20: "of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;"
Isaiah 27:13: "and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem."
Isaiah 36:7: "and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?"
Isaiah 37:38: "And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer"
Isaiah 44:15: "yea, he maketh a god, and worshipeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down"
Isaiah 44:17: "a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshipeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver"
Isaiah 45:14: "after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely"
Isaiah 46:6: "and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship."
Isaiah 49:7: "shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful,"
Isaiah 49:23: "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 dust"









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