בּוּס
bûwç · H947 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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to kick about, to flail about
Action by which humans move their arms and legs in an uncontrolled, haphazard fashion, like a young baby
ExamplesEzekiel 16:6 “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’
Ezekiel 16:22 “And besides all your abominations and obscene practices, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
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to tread down, to trample
Action by which humans tread heavily and noisily on somebody or something; usually with the purpose of killing, destroying, desecrating, and/or humiliating
ExamplesPsalm 44:5 Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.
Psalm 60:12 Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will trample down our enemies.
Psalm 108:13 Through God we will do valiantly, And it is He who will trample down our enemies.
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to spurn, to loathe, to refuse
State in which humans regard something with distaste
ExamplesProverbs 27:7 A satisfied person despises honey, But to a hungry person any bitter thing is sweet.
How it’s used In 4 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
11 occurrences in 8 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 2
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated (participle) 2
- נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 1
- צַרadversary, foe, distress 1
- ךְyou 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
8 occurrences in 7 groups
- צַרadversary, foe, distress 2
- חֶלְקָהportion 1
- מִקְדָּשׁsanctuary, holy place 1
- נֹפֶתvirgin honey 1
- עַםpeople 1
- קוּםto arise 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- בin/on/with+ דָּםblood 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ הַרmountain 1
- בin/on/with+ טִיטmud 1
- בin/on/with+ מִלְחָמָהwar, battle 1
- בin/on/with+ אַףanger, nose 1
- בin/on/with+ שֵׁםname 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- רָאָהto see 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Stance002001001061
- The verb describes trampling something underfoot, an action that presupposes standing or treading upon it, connecting it to this domain's sense of a bodily stance or posture applied in the act of treading.
- Impact002001001024
- It describes the forceful physical act of treading something down, as the psalmist speaks of treading down adversaries in Psalm 44:5 and 60:12, fitting this domain's sense of a blow or forceful impact.
- Despise002001002005
- The verb carries an extended sense of treating something with contempt, since to trample something underfoot is to treat it as worthless, connecting it to this domain of scorn.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H947. bus [בּוּס] verb tread down, trample — Qal Imperfect יָבוּס Psalm 60:14 = Psalm…
[בּוּס] verb tread down, trample —
Qal Imperfect יָבוּס Psalm 60:14 = Psalm 108:14; Psa 108:3feminine singular תָּבוּס Pro 27:7, אָבוּס Isa 63:6; suffix3singular אֲבוּסֶנּוּ Isa 14:25; Isa 14:1plural נָבוּס Psa 44:6; — tread down, trample (of warriors), no object expressed Zec 10:5; id., figurative with accusative (subject ׳י, as warrior) Isa 14:25 compare Psalm 60:14 = Psalm 108:14; Isa 63:6; (subject men, with God's help) Psa 44:6; figurative = reject, loathe Pro 27:7.
Pol. Perfect בּוֺסְסוּ Isa 63:18; בֹּסְסוּ Jer 12:10 — tread down in bad sense, subject enemies of ׳י, object accusative Jer 12:10 (in metaphor); = desecrate (object מקדשׁ) Isa 63:18.
Hithpolel Participle feminine מִתְבּוֺסֶסֶת Eze 16:6, Eze 16:22 — of the blind movements of infant's limbs, kick out (this way and that), figurative of Jerusalem.
Hoph`al Participle מוּבָ֑ס Isa 14:19 — passive trodden down Isa 14:19, of corpse, simile of king of Babylon.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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