קָדַד qâdad — to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference
Translated in the KJV as bow head, stoop.
a primitive root; to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference.
qâdad in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 15
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›