כָּרַע (kāraʿ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning bow down. It appears
36 times
in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H3766).
Also rendered
to bow
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1044)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1044)bow down; bow, bow down over; bow in grief, bow down in death; bend, sink, prostrate; bring down, cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, smite down, subdue
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
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
Hiphil
1.cause to bow in grief
2.cause to bow down in death
Strong's H3766כָּרַע: to bend the knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate KJV:bow (down, self), bring down (low), cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue, × very.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.