shachach · bow down, sink

What it means

shachach (שָׁחַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bow down, sink”.

To bow down, to sink, to be brought low.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To bend the body down, whether in grief, in submission or to lie in wait.
2. To be brought low: the proud are humbled and the grieving feel crushed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• are bowed down ×3
• are you cast down ×3
• bowed ×3
• will be bowed down ×2
• are brought low ×1
• bow down ×1
• bowing low ×1
• cast down ×1
• he bows down ×1
• he has brought down ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×2
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×8
• Habakkuk×1

• Job 9:13

  Eloah does not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

• Job 38:40

  when they crouch in their dwellings and lie in the thicket in ambush?

• Psalms 10:10

  He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall before his strong ones.

• Psalms 35:14

  As for a companion, as for a brother of mine I went about; as one who weeps for a mother, in mourning I bowed low.

• Psalms 38:6

  I am twisted, bowed down greatly; all the day in mourning I go about.

• Psalms 42:5

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of his face.

• Psalms 42:6

  My Elohim, within me my soul is cast down; therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan and of the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.

• Psalms 42:11

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and why are you agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of my face and my Elohim.

• Psalms 43:5

  Why are you cast down, my soul, and why are you agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of my face and my Elohim.

• Psalms 107:39

  And they decrease and are bowed down by oppression, evil, and sorrow.

• Proverbs 14:19

  The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

• Isaiah 2:9

  And human beings are bowed down, and man is brought low — do not forgive them!

• Isaiah 2:11

  The haughty eyes of human beings will be brought low, and the height of men will be bowed down, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 2:17

  And the haughtiness of human beings will be bowed down, and the height of men brought low, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 5:15

  And human beings are bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

• Isaiah 25:12

  And the fortress, the high refuge of your walls, he will bring down, he will lay low, he will bring it to the ground, to the dust.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the town set on high; he lays it low, he lays it low to the ground, he brings it to the dust.

• Isaiah 29:4

  And you will be brought low; from the earth you will speak, and from the dust your saying will come low; and your voice will be like a spirit of the dead from the earth, and from the dust your saying will whisper.

• Isaiah 60:14

  And they will come to you bowing low, the sons of those who afflicted you, and they will bow down at the soles of your feet, all who despised you; and they will call you “The City of YHWH, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”

• Habakkuk 3:6

  He stands and shakes the earth; he looks and makes leap the nations; and the perpetual mountains are shattered, the eternal hills sink down; the eternal ways are his.