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שָׁחָה

sha.chahH7812

to bow

Used 172 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • to bow down
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 1) to bow down
  • 1a) (Qal) to bow down
  • 1b)(Hiphil) to depress (fig)
  • 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

Same idea, other words · Prayer and worship

Worship is bowing and serving, so the same words can describe prayer, homage and work done for God.

Where it appears

  • Genesis23
  • Exodus11
  • Leviticus1
  • Numbers2
  • Deuteronomy8
  • Joshua3
  • Judges4
  • Ruth1
  • 1 Samuel12
  • 2 Samuel13
  • 1 Kings11
  • 2 Kings12
  • 1 Chronicles3
  • 2 Chronicles11
  • Nehemiah3
  • Esther3
  • Job1
  • Psalms17
  • Proverbs1
  • Isaiah14
  • Jeremiah8
  • Ezekiel4
  • Micah1
  • Zephaniah3
  • Zechariah2

Every use · 151–172 of 172 · BSB

  1. Isaiah 49:23יִשְׁתַּ֣חֲווּthey will bow down

    Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

  2. Isaiah 51:23שְׁחִ֣יlie down

    I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

  3. Isaiah 60:14וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֛וּand they will bow down

    The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

  4. Isaiah 66:23לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֥תto bow down

    From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

  5. Jeremiah 1:16וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּand they have bowed down

    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.

  6. Jeremiah 7:2לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֖תto bow down

    “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

  7. Jeremiah 8:2הִֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּthey bowed down

    They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.

  8. Jeremiah 13:10וּלְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֣תand to bow down

    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

  9. Jeremiah 16:11וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּand they bowed down

    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

  10. Jeremiah 22:9וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֛וּand they bowed down

    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”

  11. Jeremiah 25:6וּלְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֣תand to bow down

    Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’

  12. Jeremiah 26:2לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֣תto bow down

    “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.

  13. Ezekiel 8:16מִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֥ם[were] bowing down

    So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

  14. Ezekiel 46:2וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוָ֛הand he will bow down

    The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening.

  15. Ezekiel 46:3וְהִשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּand they will bow down

    On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.

  16. Ezekiel 46:9לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֗תto bow down

    When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.

  17. Micah 5:13תִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֥הyou will bow down

    I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

  18. Zephaniah 1:5הַמִּשְׁתַּחֲוִ֥יםthose [who] bow down

    those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

  19. Zephaniah 1:5הַמִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוִים֙those [who] bow down

    those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

  20. Zephaniah 2:11וְיִשְׁתַּֽחֲווּ־so they may bow down

    The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.

  21. Zechariah 14:16לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹת֙to bow down

    Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

  22. Zechariah 14:17לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֔תto bow down

    And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.

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