עָסַס
ʻâçaç · H6072 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to tread down, to trample
Action by which animals tread down objects under their feet, only used in a figurative extension of meaning where humans tread down their enemies as if they were animals
ExamplesMalachi 4:3 “And you will crush the wicked underfoot, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am preparing,” says the LORD of armies.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָשָׁעwicked 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- דָּרַךְ dârak · H1869 · to tread, to set foot (on something), to march
- Common Hebrew verb for treading or trampling, often used for trampling grapes in a winepress or treading on enemies; semantically very close to עָסַס in the sense of pressing down with the feet.
- רָמַס râmaç · H7429 · to trample (down), to tread, to trample down
- Hebrew verb specifically denoting trampling or treading down, often with connotations of destruction or subjugation; closely parallel to עָסַס in meaning.
In the other Testament 2 words
- καταπατέω katapatéō · G2662 · to trample on, to despise, to treat with complete disdain
- Standard Greek equivalent for the Hebrew concept of treading down or trampling; both verbs denote the action of stepping on something forcefully to crush or press it down.
- πατέω patéō · G3961 · to step on, to tread on, to trample
- Basic Greek verb for treading or trampling, closely corresponding to the Hebrew verb's sense of pressing down by foot.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- עָסַס means to tread down, describing forceful trampling underfoot.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6072. asas [עָסַס] verb press, crush, by treading, tread down (Late Hebrew עֲסִיסִיה…
[עָסַס] verb press, crush, by treading, tread down (Late Hebrew עֲסִיסִיה crushed wheat; compare Arabic go the rounds, [tramp], prowl; Syriac explore, see Brock); —
Qal Perfect2masculine plural figurative וְעַסּוֺתֶם הָֽרְשָׁעִים Malachi 3:21 (consecutive).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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