Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7812: שָׁחָה (shâchâh) Definition

Strong's number
H7812
Lemma
שָׁחָה
Transliteration
shâchâh
Pronunciation
shaw-khaw'
Strong's definition
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. a primitive root;

165 instances of the word שָׁחָה shâchâh (H7812)


  • Ezekiel 8:16 - And he brought court house of the LORD me into the inner and behold at the door of the temple of the LORD between the porch and the altar and twenty were about five men with their backs of the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east and they worshipped toward the east the sun

  • Ezekiel 46:2 - shall enter And the prince by the way of the porch but the gate without and shall stand by the post but the gate shall prepare and the priests his burnt offering and his peace offerings and he shall worship at the threshold but the gate then he shall go forth but the gate shall not be shut until the evening

  • Ezekiel 46:3 - shall worship Likewise the people of the land at the door of this gate in the sabbaths and in the new moons before the LORD

  • Ezekiel 46:9 - and he that entereth But when the people of the land before the LORD in the solemn feasts and he that entereth by the way gate of the north to worship but shall go forth by the way gate of the south and he that entereth by the way gate of the south but shall go forth by the way gate of the north he shall not return by the way gate and he that entereth over against but shall go forth

  • Genesis 18:2 - And he lift up his eyes and looked and lo three stood and looked them he ran to meet door them from the tent and bowed himself toward the ground

  • Genesis 19:1 - And there came two angels of Sodom at even and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom seeing and Lot them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground

  • Genesis 22:5 - said And Abraham and I and the lad Abide ye here with the ass and I and the lad yonder and worship and come again

  • Genesis 23:7 - stood up And Abraham and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of Heth

  • Genesis 23:12 - bowed down And Abraham himself before the people of the land

  • Genesis 24:26 - bowed down his head And the man and worshipped the LORD

  • Genesis 24:48 - And I bowed down my head and worshipped the LORD and blessed the LORD God my master's Abraham which had led me way in the right to take daughter brother's my master's unto his son

  • Genesis 24:52 - heard servant And it came to pass that when Abraham's their words he worshipped bowing himself to the earth the LORD

  • Genesis 27:29 - serve Let people bow down thee and nations to thee be lord over thy brethren bow down sons and let thy mother's be every one that curseth be every one that curseth be he that blesseth be he that blesseth

  • Genesis 33:3 - And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother

  • Genesis 33:6 - came near Then the handmaidens they and their children and they bowed themselves

  • Genesis 33:7 - came And Leah also with her children and bowed themselves and after came Joseph and Rachel and bowed themselves

  • Genesis 37:7 - For behold we were binding and behold your sheaves in the field arose and behold your sheaves and also stood upright stood round about and behold your sheaves and made obeisance and behold your sheaves

  • Genesis 37:9 - And he dreamed a dream yet another and told it his brethren and said And he dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance

  • Genesis 37:10 - And he told and his father and thy brethren rebuked and his father him and said unto him What is this dream that thou hast dreamed come come Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth

  • Genesis 42:6 - And Joseph was the governor of the land and he it was that sold to all the people of the land came brethren And Joseph and bowed down themselves before him with their faces of the land