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# עָסַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6072

**press** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

press [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6072/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָסַס: vb. press, crush tread down [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6072/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. press, crush, by treading, tread down (NH עֲסִיסִית crushed wheat; cf. Arabic عَسَّ go the rounds, \[tramp\], prowl; Syriac ܥܰܣ explore, v. Brockelmann);— Pf. 2 mpl. fig. וְעַסּוֹתֶם רְשָׁעִים Mal 3:21 (consec.).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you will tread down (1).

## In the verses

[Malachi 3:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MAL.3.21/#tree)

וְעַסּוֹתֶ֣ם רְשָׁעִ֔ים כִּֽי־יִהְי֣וּ אֵ֔פֶר תַּ֖חַת כַּפּ֣וֹת רַגְלֵיכֶ֑ם בַּיּוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲנִ֣י עֹשֶׂ֔ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* and you.will.tread.down wicked.\[people\] (dm) they.will.be ash\[es\] under the.soles your.feet your on the day when I \[will.be\].acting he.says Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do make, saith the LORD of hosts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6072/): 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).