Bible Dictionary: Stoop

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch step as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.

2. (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

3. (n.) A post fixed in the earth.

4. (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.

5. (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

6. (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

7. (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

8. (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.

9. (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

10. (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

11. (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.

12. (v. t.) To degrade.

13. (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

14. (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

15. (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

Greek

3879. parakupto -- to stoop sideways, to stoop to look
... to stoop sideways, to stoop to look. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: parakupto
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak-oop'-to) Short Definition: I stoop, peer in ...
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2955. kupto -- to stoop down
... to stoop down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kupto Phonetic Spelling:
(koop'-to) Short Definition: I bend, stoop down Definition: I bend, stoop down ...
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4794. sugkupto -- to bend forwards, bow down
... bow together. From sun and kupto; to stoop altogether, ie Be completely overcome
by -- bow together. see GREEK sun. see GREEK kupto. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7164. qaras -- to bend down, stoop, crouch
... 7163b, 7164. qaras. 7165 . to bend down, stoop, crouch. Transliteration: qaras
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-ras') Short Definition: over. Word Origin a prim. ... stoop ...
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6808. tsaah -- to stoop, bend, incline
... 6807b, 6808. tsaah. 6809 . to stoop, bend, incline. Transliteration: tsaah
Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-aw') Short Definition: exile. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6915. qadad -- to bow down
... bow down the head, stoop. A primitive root; to shrivel up, ie Contract or bend the
body (or neck) in deference -- bow (down) (the) head, stoop. 6914, 6915. ...
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3486. yashesh -- aged, decrepit
... stoop for age. From an unused root meaning to blanch; gray-haired, ie An aged man --
stoop for age. 3485, 3486. yashesh. 3487 . Strong's Numbers.
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7817. shachach -- to bow, be bowed down, crouch
... bend, bow down, bring cast down, humble self, be bring low, stoop. A primitive
root; to sink or depress (reflexive or causative) -- bend ...
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3766. kara -- to bow down
... knee; by implication, to sink, to prostrate -- bow (down, self), bring down (low),
cast down, couch, fall, feeble, kneeling, sink, smite (stoop) down, subdue ...
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3720. kaphan -- hunger, famine
... famine. From kaphan; hunger (as making to stoop with emptiness and pain) -- famine.
see HEBREW kaphan. 3719, 3720. kaphan. 3721 . Strong's Numbers.
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2603. chanan -- to show favor, be gracious
... A primitive root (compare chanah); properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an
inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (ie Move to favor by petition ...
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7812. shachah -- to bow down
... reflexive, in homage to royalty or God) -- bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat),
humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship ...
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5791. avath -- to be bent or crooked
... root Definition to be bent or crooked NASB Word Usage bent (1), cheat (1), crooked
(1), defraud (1), pervert (3), stoop (1), subvert (1), thwarts (1), wronged ...
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Library

Of the Testimony in Mark. What is Meant by the Saviour's Shoes and ...
... as "He that cometh after me is mightier than I." There is a difference, however,
in what follows, "The latchets of His shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and ...
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The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
... eternal melodies of the redeemed, and the seraphic sonnets of the cherubim and all
the angelic hosts, it was strange that the Saviour should stoop himself from ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the conversion of saul of.htm

Men Chosen --Fallen Angels Rejected
... It would have been a stoop, more immense than if a seraph should have changed himself
into an emmet, for the Almighty Son of God to have been clothed in the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/men chosenfallen angels rejected.htm

The Best of the Best
... It is a wonderful stoop that the Christ of God should speak about having a bride,
and that he should come to seek his bride among the sons of men. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 42 1896/the best of the best.htm

Seventeenth Day. Humility.
... His feet. But the High and the Lofty One, inhabiting eternity, is on earth
"as one that serveth!" "That infinite stoop! it sinks ...
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The Mission of the Son of Man
... Jesus Christ called himself the Son of Man, because he loved to be a man. It was
a great stoop for him to come from heaven and to be incarnate. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the mission of the son.htm

Teaching Three Things in one Action.
... it. Humility is the foundation of all strength and victory. Only the strong
can stoop. It takes the strongest to stoop lowest. He ...
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A Greater than Solomon
... not robbery to be equal with God": mark that; and yet "He made himself of no
reputation." Some people do not know their own worth, and so, when they stoop to ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/a greater than solomon.htm

Of the Trinity and a Christian
... and the truth, unto which thou hast joined thyself, to assent to, confess, and
acknowledge the same, even then when thy carnal reason will not stoop thereto. ...
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Another Archbishop
... There was no flattery, no complaisance to which they would not stoop, if they
could only capture popularity among the lowest of the people. ...
/.../chapter xiv another archbishop.htm

Thesaurus

Stoop (10 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. 10. (vt)
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. 11. ...
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Crouch (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the
ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear. ...
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Stooped (15 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Stoop. Multi-Version Concordance
Stooped (15 Occurrences). Mark 1:7 and he proclaimed, saying ...
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Heaviness (14 Occurrences)
... of anxiety, sorrow, grief, etc.; de'aghah, "fear," "dread," "anxious care" (Proverbs
12:25, "Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop," the Revised ...
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Untie (10 Occurrences)
... Mark 1:7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong
of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. (See NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Unloose (4 Occurrences)
... Mark 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet
of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. ...
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Unworthy (8 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Mark 1:7 His announcement was, "There is One coming after me mightier than
I--One whose sandal-strap I am unworthy to stoop down and unfasten. (WEY). ...
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Unfasten (4 Occurrences)
... Mark 1:7 His announcement was, "There is One coming after me mightier than I--One
whose sandal-strap I am unworthy to stoop down and unfasten. (WEY). ...
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Latchet (4 Occurrences)
... Mark 1:7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet
of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. ...
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Loose (219 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Mark 1:7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I,
the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. ...
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Bible Concordance

Stoop (10 Occurrences)

Mark 1:7 He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 11:10 Let darkness come over their eyes that they may be unable to see, and make Thou their backs continually to stoop."
(WEY)

1 Peter 1:12 To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.
(WEY)

2 Samuel 22:36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.
(See NIV)

Job 9:13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Psalms 18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
(KJV ASV DBY)

Ecclesiastes 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;
(See NAS NIV)

Isaiah 46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Stoop

Related Terms

Crouch (7 Occurrences)

Stooped (15 Occurrences)

Heaviness (14 Occurrences)

Untie (10 Occurrences)

Unloose (4 Occurrences)

Unworthy (8 Occurrences)

Unfasten (4 Occurrences)

Latchet (4 Occurrences)