Shâchach — H7817

Definition

verb

to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)

1. to bow, crouch, bow down, be bowed down
1. (Qal)
1. to be bowed down, be prostrated, be humbled
2. to bow (in homage)
3. to bow (of mourner)
4. to crouch (of wild beast in lair)
2. (Niphal) to be prostrated, be humbled, be reduced, be weakened, proceed humbly, be bowed down
3. (Hiphil) to prostrate, lay low, bow down
4. (Hithpolel) to be cast down, be despairing

Usually translated as

low, bow, bring, couch, stoop, bend, down, humble self, be

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• dýnō (G1416)
• kakóō (G2559)
• kámptō (G2578)
• katágō (G2609)
• kýptō (G2955)
• tapeinóō (G5013)
• tarássō (G5015)
• tḗkō (G5080)

Occurrences

Shâchach occurs 21 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (2), Psalms (8), Proverbs (1), Ecclesiastes (1), Isaiah (8), Habakkuk (1)

• Job 9:13 — If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop (שָׁ֝חֲח֗וּ) under him.
• Job 38:40 — When they couch (יָשֹׁ֥חוּ) in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
• Psalms 10:10 — He croucheth, and humbleth (יָשֹׁ֑חַ) himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
• Psalms 35:14 — I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down (שַׁחֽוֹתִי) heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
• Psalms 38:6 — I am troubled; I am bowed down (שַׁחֹ֣תִי) greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
• Psalms 42:5 — Why art thou cast down (תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י), O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
• Psalms 42:6 — O my God, my soul is cast down (תִשְׁתּ֫וֹחָ֥ח) within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
• Psalms 42:11 — Why art thou cast down (תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י), O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Psalms 43:5 — Why art thou cast down (תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י), O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Psalms 107:39 — Again, they are minished and brought low (וַיָּשֹׁ֑חוּ) through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
• Proverbs 14:19 — The evil bow (שַׁח֣וּ) before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
• Ecclesiastes 12:4 — And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low (וְיִשַּׁ֖חוּ);
• Isaiah 2:9 — And the mean man boweth down (וַיִּשַּׁ֥ח), and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
• Isaiah 2:11 — The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down (וְשַׁ֖ח), and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isaiah 2:17 — And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down (וְשַׁח֙), and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Isaiah 5:15 — And the mean man shall be brought down (וַיִּשַּׁ֥ח), and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
• Isaiah 25:12 — And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down (הֵשַׁ֥ח), lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
• Isaiah 26:5 — For he bringeth down (הֵשַׁח֙) them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
• Isaiah 29:4 — And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low (תִּשַּׁ֣ח) out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
• Isaiah 60:14 — The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending (שְׁח֙וֹחַ֙) unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Habakkuk 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow (שַׁח֖וּ): his ways are everlasting.