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# בּוּס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H947

**tread down** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tread down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּס: vb. tread down, trample Poʿl. Hithpoʿl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tread down, trample— Impf. יָבוּס ψ 60:14 = 108:14; 3 fs. תָּבוּס Pr 27:7, אָבוּס Is 63:6; sf. 3 s. אֲבוּסֶנּוּ Is 14:25; 1 pl. נָבוּס ψ 44:6;—tread down, trample (of warriors), no obj. expr. Zc 10:5; id., fig. c. acc. (subj. י׳, as warrior) Is 14:25 cf. ψ 60:14 = 108:14 Is 63:6; (subj. men, with God’s help) ψ 44:6; fig. = reject, loathe Pr 27:7. Poʿl. Pf. בּוֹסְסוּ Is 63:18; בֹּסְסוּ Je 12:10—tread down, in bad sense, subj. enemies of י׳, obj. acc. Je 12:10 (in metaph.): = desecrate (obj. מקדשׁ) Is 63:18. Hithpoʿl. Pt. f. מִתְבּוֹסֶסֶת Ez 16:6, 22—of the blind movements of infant’s limbs, kick out (this way and that), fig. of Jerusalem. Pt. מוּרָ֑ס Is 14:19—pass. trodden down Is 14:19, of corpse, sim. of king of Babylon.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he will tread down (2); kicking about (2); they have trodden down (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 60:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.14/#tree)

בֵּֽאלֹהִ֥ים נַעֲשֶׂה־חָ֑יִל וְ֝ה֗וּא יָב֥וּס צָרֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* in God we.will.do strength and he he.will.tread.down foes our

*JPS 1917:* Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.

[Psalms 108:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.14/#tree)

בֵּֽאלֹהִ֥ים נַעֲשֶׂה־חָ֑יִל וְ֝ה֗וּא יָב֥וּס צָרֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* in God we.will.do strength and he he.will.tread.down foes our

*JPS 1917:* Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/947.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).