Genesis 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
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Bowed
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Romans 11:4
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
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16 occurrences in 15 verses.
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Genesis
1615 verses
Exodus
33 verses
Numbers
22 verses
Joshua
11 verses
Judges
75 verses
Ruth
11 verses
1 Samuel
66 verses
2 Samuel
77 verses
1 Kings
77 verses
2 Kings
22 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
55 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Esther
32 verses
Psalms
77 verses
Isaiah
33 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
John
11 verses
Romans
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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שָׁחָה
shâchâh · shaw-khaw'
28 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
Strong's KJV usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 18:2Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:21
Open full H7812 profile →כָּרַע
kâraʻ · kaw-rah'
10 times translated as this KJV form37 total Strong's occurrences
to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate
Strong's KJV usage: bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, × very.
Strong's first: Judges 5:27Strong's last: Esther 3:5
Open full H3766 profile →נָטָה
nâṭâh · naw-taw'
5 times translated as this KJV form214 total Strong's occurrences
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:15Strong's last: Psalms 18:9
Open full H5186 profile →קָדַד
qâdad · kaw-dad'
4 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference
Strong's KJV usage: bow (down) (the) head, stoop.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 1:16Strong's last: Nehemiah 8:6
Open full H6915 profile →κάμπτω
kámptō · kamp'-to
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to bend
Strong's KJV usage: :--bow.
Strong's first: Romans 11:4Strong's last: Romans 11:4
Open full G2578 profile →κλίνω
klínō · klee'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to slant or slope, i.e. incline or recline (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--bow (down), be far spent, lay, turn to flight, wear away.
Strong's first: John 19:30Strong's last: John 19:30
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H7812
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
H7812
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
H3766
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
H3766
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
H3766
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
no direct Strong's tag
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
H5186
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
English meaning and historical usage.
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bowed
BOW'ED, participle passive Bent; crushed; subdued.
BOWED, participle passive Bent; like a bow.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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