Genesis 43:28
And they said: 'Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 37:7for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.'
Genesis 43:26And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down to him to the earth.
2 Samuel 1:2it came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head; and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and prostrated himself.
1 Kings 1:16And Bath-sheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'
Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:27-34
26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom… Read the whole commentary →