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# קָדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6915

**bow down** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bow down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6915/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קָדַד: vb. bow down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6915/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bow down (Assyrian (including TelAm.) ḳadâdu, bow down);— Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּקֹּד Gn 24:26 +, etc.;—usually + וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ etc.; in worship of י׳ Gn 24:26, 48; Ex 4:31; 12:27; 34:8; Nu 22:31; 2 Ch 20:18; 29:30; Ne 8:6; homage to man of rank Gn 43:28, king 1 S 24:9 (Gi v 8), 28:14; 1 K 1:16, 31; to י׳ + king 1 Ch 29:20.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he bowed low (6); they bowed low (5); she bowed low (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 24:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.26/#tree)

וַיִּקֹּ֣ד הָאִ֔ישׁ וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ לַֽיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.bowed.low the man and he.bowed.down to Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the man bowed his head, and prostrated himself before the LORD.

[Exodus 34:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.8/#tree)

וַיְמַהֵ֖ר מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיִּקֹּ֥ד אַ֖רְצָה וַיִּשְׁתָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.hurried Moses and he.bowed.low ground to.\[the\] and he.bowed.down

*JPS 1917:* And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6915.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6915/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).