# H3766 כָּרַע

כָּרַע (kâraʻ), Strong’s H3766: to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate KJV: bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink…. Occurs 36 times.

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*kâraʻ* — to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate

KJV: bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink…

Occurs 36 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- כָּרַע bow down
- Qal
- 1 bow
- 2 bow down, of the crouching lion
- 3 bow down over (in order to lie with) a woman
- 4 bow down, of a woman in childbirth
- Hiph.
- 1 cause to bow in grief
- 2 cause to bow down in death

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 49:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=9) — Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness…
- [Numbers 24:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=9) — He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone…
- [Judges 5:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=27) — At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
- [Judges 7:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/7?v=5) — So he brought down the people to the water; and the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his…
- [Judges 7:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/7?v=6) — The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the…
- [Judges 11:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/11?v=35) — When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of…
- [1 Samuel 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/4?v=19) — His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was…
- [2 Samuel 22:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=40) — For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- [1 Kings 8:54](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/8?v=54) — It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before…
- [1 Kings 19:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/19?v=18) — Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not…