18 Bible Verses About Worship, and What the Word Means Before It Means Music

The Bible describes worship as bowing before God alone, obeying him, offering him a whole life, and praising him together with other believers. The Hebrew verb most often translated worship, shachah, means to bow down, and it occurs more than 170 times in the Old Testament. Several of the verses below use it, or its New Testament equivalent, for a physical act: bowing, kneeling, or falling down before God. Worship begins with the body Psalm 95:6 “Oh come, let us…