Limitless Word
שָׁחַחshâchach/shaw-khakh'/
HebrewH781721 occurrences (KJV)

to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)

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

Where it appears

  • Job 9:13“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
  • Job 38:40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
  • Ps 10:10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
  • Ps 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
  • Ps 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
  • Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
  • Ps 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
  • Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
  • Ps 107:39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
  • Prov 14:19The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
  • Eccl 12:4and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
  • Isa 2:9Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
  • Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 5:15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
  • Isa 25:12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
  • Isa 26:5For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.
  • Isa 29:4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
  • Isa 60:14The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Hab 3:6He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.