Quick Definition
to trample
Strong's Definition
to trample (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
TWOT Reference: 216
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בּוּס (bus) — to trample. 1) to tread down, reject, trample down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tread down, trample (of warriors) 1a2) of rejection (fig.) 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to tread down (in bad sense) 1b2) to desecrate 1c) (Hithpolel) 1c1) to tread 1c2) to kick out 1c2a) of infants' blind movements 1c2b) of Jerusalem (fig.) 1d) (Hophal) to be trodden down
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מְבוּסָה · תְּבוּסָה
Stance | verb hit
to kick about, to flail about = action by which humans move their arms and legs in an uncontrolled, haphazard fashion, like a young baby
Impact | verb qal, verb pi, verb hof | ≈ נגח · שׁבר · שׁחת
to tread down, to trample = action by which humans tread heavily and noisily on somebody or something; ► usually with the purpose of killing, destroying, desecrating, and/or humiliating
PSA 44:6 · PSA 60:14 · PSA 108:14 · ISA 14:19 · ISA 14:25 · ISA 41:25 · ISA 63:6 · ISA 63:18 · JER 12:10 · AMO 5:11 · ZEC 10:5
Despise | verb qal
to spurn, to loathe, to refuse = state in which humans regard something with distaste
1 ISA 41:25 RSV NRSV ESV "he shall trample" NIV "he treads" NJPS "he has trampled" NJB GNT CEV "he tramples" REB "he marches over" | MT וְיָבֹא LXX "ἐρχέσθωσαν ἄρχοντες" 2 AMO 5:11 LXX "κατακονδυλίζω" | RSV NIV NJB NRSV ESV "trample" GNT "oppress" CEV "abuse" | NJPS "impose a tax" REB "levy taxes" = בשׁס 3 ZEC 10:5 Apparently the direct object has been ellided in this verse, as RSV NRSV GNT CEV insert the word "enemies" into the translation. Other translations take the phrase "dirt of the street" as the direct object, which is somewhat problematic because of the preposition בְּ. 4 PRO 27:7 Most commentaries stick to a physical sense: "tramples". BHS suggests emending to תָּבוּז "despises". Most modern versions translate it in that psychological sense, either accepting the emendation or understanding תָּבוּס in an extended sense.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בּוּס] vb. tread down, trample Qal tread down, trample (of warriors)
Pol. tread down, in bad sense
Hithpol. of the blind movements of infant’s limbs, kick out (this way and that), fig. of Jerusalem.
Hoph. pass. trodden down
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