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Hebrew verb · H7817

שָׁחַח

shachachshaw-khakh'

to bow

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâchach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7817is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 18
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7817

to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)

The King James renders it: bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

shachach is rendered "to bow". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 9:13God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
  • The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.

The first use

God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Job 9:13שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's twenty-one uses are in Psalms.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • are you bowed down3
  • and he has been humbled2
  • and it will be humbled2
  • he will lay low2
  • and they may be reduced1
  • and they were bowed down1
  • by bowing down1
  • he is bowed down1
  • I am bent over1
  • I bowed1
  • it is bowed down1
  • it will be humbled1

and 4 more, 21 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׁחָהshachahto bowUses172
שָׁחַתshachathto ruinUses146
שָׁחַטshachatto slaughterUses81
שָׁחַרshacharto seekUses12
שָׁחֹרshachorblackUses6
שָׁחַטshachatbeatenUses5
שָׁחַקshachaqto beatUses4
שָׁחַדshachadto bribeUses2
שָׁחִיסshachisoffspringUses2
שָׁחַרshacharbe blackUses1
שָׁחִיףshachiphpaneledUses1

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

18 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י׀3
  • וַיִּשַּׁ֥ח2
  • הֵשַׁ֥ח1
  • הֵשַׁח֙1
  • וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ1
  • וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ1
  • וְשַׁ֖ח1
  • וְשַׁח֙1
  • יָשֹׁ֑חַ1
  • יָשֹׁ֥חוּ1
  • שַׁח֣וּ1
  • שַׁח֖וּ1

and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
  • verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singular3HVti2fs
  • Hc/VNw3ms2Hc/VNw3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3ms2Hc/Vqq3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
  • HC/VNu3mp1HC/VNu3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVqcc
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms

Job

two uses
  • God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

    Job 9:13

    • שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּshachachuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they lay prostrate
  • when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

    Job 38:40

    • יָשֹׁ֥חוּyashochuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will crouch

Psalms

eight uses
  • They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

    Psalms 10:10

    • יָשֹׁ֑חַyashoachverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is bowed down
  • I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

    Psalms 35:14

    • שַׁחֽוֹתִי׃shachotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I bowed
  • I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

    Psalms 38:6

    • שַׁחֹ֣תִיshachotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am bent over
  • Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

    Psalms 42:5

    • תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י׀tishtochachiverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: are you bowed down
  • O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

    Psalms 42:6

    • תִשְׁתּ֫וֹחָ֥חtishtochachverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is bowed down
  • Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

    Psalms 42:11

    • תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י׀tishtochachiverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: are you bowed down
  • Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

    Psalms 43:5

    • תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י׀tishtochachiverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: are you bowed down
  • When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,

    Psalms 107:39

    • וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּvaiyashochuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they were bowed down

Proverbs

one use
  • The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

    Proverbs 14:19

    • שַׁח֣וּshachuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they bow

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

    Ecclesiastes 12:4

    • וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּveyishachuHC/VNu3mptagged: and they may be reduced

Isaiah

eight uses
  • So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

    Isaiah 2:9

    • וַיִּשַּׁ֥חvaiyishachHc/VNw3mstagged: and he has been humbled
  • The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

    Isaiah 2:11

    • וְשַׁ֖חveshachHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be humbled
  • So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

    Isaiah 2:17

    • וְשַׁח֙veshachHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will be humbled
  • So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

    Isaiah 5:15

    • וַיִּשַּׁ֥חvaiyishachHc/VNw3mstagged: and he has been humbled
  • The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

    Isaiah 25:12

    • הֵשַׁ֥חheshachverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lay low
  • For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.

    Isaiah 26:5

    • הֵשַׁח֙heshachverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will lay low
  • You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

    Isaiah 29:4

    • תִּשַּׁ֣חtishachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be humbled
  • 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.

    Isaiah 60:14

    • שְׁח֙וֹחַ֙shechoachverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by bowing down

Habakkuk

one use
  • He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

    Habakkuk 3:6

    • שַׁח֖וּshachuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have bowed down

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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