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Stoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of bending the body forward; inclination forward.

2. Descent from dignity or superiority; condescension.

3. Can any loyal subject see with patience such a stoop from sovereignty?

4. Fall of a bird on his prey.

5. In America, a kind of shed, generally open, but attached to a house; also, an open place for seats at a door.

6. A vessel of liquor; as a stoop of wine or ale.

7. A post fixed in the earth. [Local.]

Stoop [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bend the body downward and forward; as, to stoop to pick up a book.

2. To bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking. We often see men stoop in standing or walking, either from habit or from age.

3. To yield; to submit; to bend by compulsion; as, Carthage at length stooped to Rome.

4. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. IN modern days, attention to agriculture is not called stooping in men of property.

5. Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

6. To yield; to be inferior.

7. These are arts, my prince, in which our Zama does not stoop to Rome.

8. To come down on prey, as a hawk.

9. The bird of Jove stoopd from his airy tour, two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

10. To alight from the wing.

11. And stoop with closing pinions from above.

12. To sink to a lower place.

13. Cowering low with blandishments, each bird stoopd on his wing.

Stoop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to incline downward; to sink; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

2. To cause to submit. [Little used.]

Stoop [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep 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. A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

3. A post fixed in the earth.

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

5. Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

6. The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

Stoop [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

3. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

4. To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

5. To sink when on the wing; to alight.

Stoop [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

2. To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

3. To cause to submit; to prostrate.

4. To degrade.

Stooped [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Caused to lean.

Stooped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stoop

Stooper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that bends the body forward.

Stooper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who stoops.

Stooping [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

Stooping Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Stoop.

Stooping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stoop

Stoopingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With a bending of the body forward.

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15 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “stoop”

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?

1 Samuel 24:8

David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.

After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence

1 Samuel 28:14

And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

“What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

Job 9:13

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

Proverbs 12:25

Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Anxiety weighs down the heart of a man, but a good word cheers it up.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

Isaiah 46:1

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

Isaiah 46:2

They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

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.

And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

Luke 24:12

Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. And after bending down and seeing only the linen cloths, he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

John 8:6

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

John 8:8

And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.

John 20:5

And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

John 20:11

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb,

Baruch 2:18

But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.