שָׁחָה (sha.chah) means “to bow” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-khaw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁחָה · sha.chah · to bow
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
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a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
KJV glosses: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and worshiped | 16 |
| to worship | 12 |
| and bowed down | 10 |
| and worship | 10 |
| and bowed | 9 |
| bow down | 9 |
| and bow down | 8 |
| worship | 6 |
| bowed | 5 |
| in homage | 4 |
| in reverence | 4 |
| to bow down | 4 |
| and paid homage | 3 |
| was worshiping | 3 |
| you must worship | 3 |
| and bow | 2 |
| and he worshiped | 2 |
| and they worshiped | 2 |
| bow | 2 |
| let us worship | 2 |
| they bowed down | 2 |
| will bow down | 2 |
| worshiping | 2 |
| and balaam bowed low | 1 |
| and bowed low | 1 |
| and have bowed down | 1 |
| and have worshiped | 1 |
| and he bowed | 1 |
| and i bow down | 1 |
| and they bowed | 1 |
| and they will worship | 1 |
| and worships | 1 |
| and worships it | 1 |
| and you are to worship | 1 |
| are also to bow in worship | 1 |
| bowed down | 1 |
| bowed in worship | 1 |
| bowing down | 1 |
| bowing low | 1 |
| bows down | 1 |
| has bowed in worship | 1 |
| he bowed down | 1 |
| he bowed in worship | 1 |
| he is to bow in worship | 1 |
| he used to worship | 1 |
| i bow down | 1 |
| i humbly bow before you | 1 |
| i will bow down | 1 |
| in worship | 1 |
| lie down | 1 |
| mephibosheth bowed down | 1 |
| or pay him homage | 1 |
| or pay homage | 1 |
| shall bow down | 1 |
| so i can worship | 1 |
| so that i may worship | 1 |
| so they worshiped | 1 |
| they bow down | 1 |
| they bowed down to | 1 |
| they will bow | 1 |
| those who bow | 1 |
| those who bow down | 1 |
| to bow in worship | 1 |
| to honor him | 1 |
| to pay him homage | 1 |
| weighs down | 1 |
| were bowing down | 1 |
| will bow in worship | 1 |
| will fall facedown | 1 |
| worshiped | 1 |
| worships | 1 |
| you are to bow down | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and worshipped | 25 |
| and bowed | 17 |
| and worship | 12 |
| to worship | 10 |
| and did obeisance | 4 |
| shall worship | 4 |
| and bowed down | 3 |
| and made obeisance | 3 |
| bow down | 3 |
| bowed | 3 |
| thou shalt not bow down | 3 |
| ye shall worship | 3 |
| and did reverence | 2 |
| and have worshipped | 2 |
| and he bowed | 2 |
| and it came to pass as he was worshipping | 2 |
| and them that worship | 2 |
| them and to worship | 2 |
| to bow down | 2 |
| with me that i may worship | 2 |
| worship | 2 |
| worshipped | 2 |
| also shall worship | 1 |
| and bowed himself | 1 |
| and bowed themselves | 1 |
| and did worship | 1 |
| and he fell down | 1 |
| and he shall worship | 1 |
| and he worshipped | 1 |
| and him shall ye worship | 1 |
| and i bow | 1 |
| and reverenced | 1 |
| and shall worship | 1 |
| and they bowed | 1 |
| and they bowed themselves | 1 |
| and they shall fall down | 1 |
| and they worshipped | 1 |
| and whom they have worshipped | 1 |
| and worshippeth | 1 |
| be in thee neither shalt thou worship | 1 |
| bowed down | 1 |
| crouch | 1 |
| for thou shalt worship | 1 |
| he bowed | 1 |
| he worshipped | 1 |
| her and bowed | 1 |
| him and bowed | 1 |
| him worship | 1 |
| his head and fell flat | 1 |
| i humbly | 1 |
| i will worship | 1 |
| let us worship | 1 |
| made obeisance | 1 |
| maketh it stoop | 1 |
| me and have worshipped | 1 |
| nor bow | 1 |
| not nor did him reverence | 1 |
| o worship | 1 |
| of thee and thou shalt no more worship | 1 |
| reverence | 1 |
| shall bow down | 1 |
| shall fall down | 1 |
| thee shall bow themselves down | 1 |
| their heads and worshipped | 1 |
| them and bowed | 1 |
| them and have worshipped | 1 |
| them and he bowed | 1 |
| them and to bow down | 1 |
| them and worship | 1 |
| them nor bow | 1 |
| themselves and worshipped | 1 |
| thereof that he worshipped | 1 |
| they shall bow down | 1 |
| they worship | 1 |
| to do him obeisance | 1 |
| unto it and worshippeth | 1 |
| unto me and bow down | 1 |
| we will worship | 1 |
| when i bow down | 1 |
| where he worshipped | 1 |
| will i worship | 1 |
| worshippeth | 1 |
| worshipping | 1 |
| yea they worship | 1 |
Page 2 of 4. 166 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
Read word by wordYear after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
Read word by wordThe next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.
Read word by wordI now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.
Read word by wordAnd everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Read word by wordNow therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can worship the LORD.”
Read word by word“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
Read word by wordSo Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.
Read word by wordWhen the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
Read word by wordAfter that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.9
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
Read word by wordShe arose, bowed facedown, and said, “Here is your servant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
Read word by word“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.
Read word by wordOn the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.
Read word by wordAnd when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.
Read word by wordMephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
Read word by wordThen David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
Read word by wordWhen the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
Read word by wordJoab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Read word by wordSo Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
Read word by wordAlso, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
Read word by wordWhen David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
Read word by wordSo the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
Read word by wordSo Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.
Read word by wordThen Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
Read word by wordWhen Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
Read word by wordAnd Bathsheba bowed down in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?”
Read word by wordSo the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.
Read word by wordBathsheba bowed facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
Read word by wordThe king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,
Read word by wordSo King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.”
Read word by wordSo Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand.
Read word by wordBut if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Read word by wordAnd others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
Read word by wordFor they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
Read word by wordAnd as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
Read word by wordAhaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.54
When the sons of the prophets who were watching him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
Read word by wordShe came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
Read word by wordYet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my arm, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter.”
Read word by wordThey abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
Read word by wordFor the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not worship other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them.
Read word by wordInstead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.
Read word by wordBut if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
Read word by wordOne day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Read word by wordFor he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordHe walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
Read word by wordAscribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
Read word by wordDavid came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.
Read word by wordThen David said to the whole assembly, “Bless the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
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