Definition

to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bow (down
• self)
• bring down (low)
• cast down
• couch
• fall
• feeble
• kneeling
• sink
• smite (stoop) down
• subdue
• very

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.