'Bowed' in the Bible
he glanced up and saw three men standing there, not far from him. As soon as he noticed them, Abraham ran from the tent entrance to greet them and bowed low to the ground.
The two angels entered Sodom at sunset while Lot was sitting in the gate area of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up, greeted them, bowed low with his face to the ground,
Abraham rose and bowed before the Hittites, the people of the land,
"So I gave her a ring for her nose and bracelets for her wrists. I bowed down and worshipped the LORD, and I praised the LORD God of my master Abraham, who led me on the true way to request the daughter of my master's brother for his son.
When Abraham's servant heard what they had said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
Then he went out to meet Esau, passing in front of all of them, and bowed low to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
"The children, whom God has graciously given your servant," he answered. Then the women servants approached, accompanied by their children, and bowed low.
Leah also approached, and she and her children bowed low. After this, Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed low.
"We were tying sheaves together out in the middle of the fields, when all of a sudden, my sheaf stood up erect! And then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf!"
Meanwhile, Joseph continued to be ruler over the land, in charge of selling to everyone in the land. Joseph's brothers appeared and bowed down to him, face down.
When Joseph arrived at his palace, his brothers brought to him their gifts that they had carried with them and bowed to the ground in front of him.
"Your servant, our father, is doing well," they replied. "He is still alive." Then they bowed down in humility.
Joseph took them off his knees and then bowed low with his face to the ground.