בּוּסbûwç

tread down, trample

Pronunciation: boos · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H947

Meanings

Qal: tread down, trample (Psalms 60:14; Psalms 108:14; Proverbs 27:7)

Polel: tread down (Isaiah 63:18; Jeremiah 12:10)

Hithpolel: kick out, of the blind movements of infant's limbs (Ezekiel 16:6; Ezekiel 16:22)

Hoph`al: trodden down, passive (Isaiah 14:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 44:5 Only by your power can we push back our enemies; only in your name can we trample our foes.
  • Psalms 60:12 With God’s help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.
  • Psalms 108:13 With God’s help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes.
  • Proverbs 27:7 A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.
  • Isaiah 14:19 but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit.
  • Isaiah 14:25 I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel; I will trample them on my mountains. My people will no longer be their slaves nor bow down under their heavy loads.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).