- שָׁחַח
- שָׁחַח(b. h.) to bend, bow (interch. with שָׁחָה a. שוּחַ). Y.Ber.I, 3c bot. אלו … ששוֹחֲחִיןוכ׳ these are the benedictions at which you must how ; השוֹחֵחַ … שלא יָשוֹחַ (or יָשוּחַ) if one bows at every benediction, we teach him that he must not do so; Ber.34a; Gen. R. s. 39 והשוֹחֶה … לָשוֹחַ (or לָשוּחַ); Tosef.Ber.I, 9 השוֹחֶה … שלא יִשְׁחֶה. Ruth R. to II, 5 כל הנשים שוֹחֲחוֹתוכ׳ all other women stooped in gleaning, but she (Ruth) sat down; (Yalk. ib. 601 עומדות).
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.