Bowing and obeisance are acts of lowering oneself before a king or the Lord. Ammon went forth and bowed before the king after he was permitted to speak, then said he was “very thankful before God this day” that he was alive and permitted to speak (Mosiah 7:12). Aaron entered the king’s palace with his brethren, bowed before the king, and identified them as Ammon’s brethren (Alma 22:2).
Amalickiah sent his servants to meet the king, and they bowed “as if to reverence him because of his greatness” (Alma 47:22). After Aaron spoke, the king bowed before the Lord on his knees and “did prostrate himself upon the earth” (Alma 22:17).
Nephi went forth before the Lord and “did kiss his feet” (3 Nephi 11:19). Those who had been healed and those who were whole bowed at Jesus’s feet, and those able to come kissed his feet until they “did bathe his feet with their tears” (3 Nephi 17:10). Jesus went a little way from the people and “bowed himself to the earth” (3 Nephi 19:19).