[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [מ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/mem/)‎ / מְבוּסָה‎

# מְבוּסָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4001

**down-treading** — used 3 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

down-treading [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4001/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְבוּסָה: n.f. down-treading, subjugation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4001/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. down-treading, subjugation, גּוֹי קַו־קַו וּמְבוּסָה Is 18:2, 7 a nation of might and of down-treading (Che all-subduing); יוֹם מְהוּמָה וּמ׳ וּמְבוּכָה Is 22:5, cf. מְבוּכָה sub בוך.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trampling (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֣י יוֹם֩ מְהוּמָ֨ה וּמְבוּסָ֜ה וּמְבוּכָ֗ה לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּגֵ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מְקַרְקַ֥ר קִ֖ר וְשׁ֥וֹעַ אֶל־הָהָֽר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) a.day of.panic and trampling and confusion \[belongs\].to \[the\] Lord Yahweh of.hosts in.\[the\] valley of.vision breaking.down a.wall and crying.out to the mountain

*JPS 1917:* For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount.

[Isaiah 18:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.18.2/#tree)

הַשֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּיָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּבִכְלֵי־גֹמֶא֮ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַיִם֒ לְכ֣וּ ׀ מַלְאָכִ֣ים קַלִּ֗ים אֶל־גּוֹי֙ מְמֻשָּׁ֣ךְ וּמוֹרָ֔ט אֶל־עַ֥ם נוֹרָ֖א מִן־ה֣וּא וָהָ֑לְאָה גּ֚וֹי קַו־קָ֣ו וּמְבוּסָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּזְא֥וּ נְהָרִ֖ים אַרְצֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one which.is\].sending on the sea envoys and in vessels of.papyrus on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters go O.messengers swift to a.nation tall and smooth.skinned to a.people feared from it and beyond a.nation of.strength of.strength and trampling which they.divide rivers land its

*JPS 1917:* That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters! Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4001/): 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).