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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Prostration
Webster Dictionary
• Prostration
• Prostrating
• Prostrated
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Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Prostration
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Prostration
• Prostration in Prayer.
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• προσκυνέω
• חָלַשׁ , חָלַשׁ
• נָפַל
• חַף , סָחַף
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(1):

(n.) The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.

(2):

(n.) The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.

(3):

(n.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.

(4):

(n.) The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.