Shachach means “bend” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7817 שָׁחַח (shachach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shachach (shaw-khakh') v. 1. to sink or depress (reflexive or causative) [a primitive root] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include down, bowed, bow, couch, and boweth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shachach (shaw-khakh') v. 1. to sink or depress (reflexive or causative) [a primitive root] KJV: bend, bow (down), bring (cast) down, couch, humble self, be (bring) low, stoop.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7817. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to bow
Usage: 1) to bow, crouch, bow down, be bowed down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be bowed down, be prostrated, be humbled 1a2) to bow (in homage) 1a3) to bow (of mourner) 1a4) to crouch (of wild beast in lair) 1b) (Niphal) to be prostrated, be humbled, be reduced, be weakened, proceed humbly, be bowed down 1c) (Hiphil) to prostrate, lay low, bow down 1d) (Hithpolel) to be cast down, be despairing
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shachach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7817.
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Why art thou cast down, 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.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Why art thou cast down, 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.
Why art thou cast down, 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.
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
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;
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
For he bringeth down 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.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low 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.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending 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.
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7817, grouped by book.
Shachach (Strong's H7817) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bend". shachach (shaw-khakh') v. 1. to sink or depress (reflexive or causative) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H7817 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7817 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as down, bowed, bow, couch, boweth, and bending. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.