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title: דּוּשׁ — tread · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּשׁ (1758), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: tread. BDB 1906: vb. tread, thresh. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּשׁ

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«דּוּשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tread** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 1758 · **BDB:** דּוּשׁ

### Glosses

thresh (2); I.will.thresh (1); anyone (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tread [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1758/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tread, thresh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1758/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tread, thresh (Arabic دَاسَ, Assyrian dâšu, Impf. 1 s. adîš DlPr 191 COT Gloss. HomNS 391; cf. NH דּוּשׁ, Aramaic id., ܕܳܫ; v. further NöZMG 1883, 538)— Pf. דָּשׁ 1 Ch 21:20, וְדַשְׁתִּ֫י Ju 8:7; Impf. וַיָּדָשׁ so read for וַיֹּדַע Ju 8:16 cf. Be Door Bu Vrss 2 ms. תָּדוּשׁ Is 41:15 Hb 3:12; 3 ms. sf. יְדוּשֶׁ֑נּוּ Is 28:28; 3 fs. sf. תְּדוּשֶׁ֑הָ Jb 39:15; Imv. fs. דּוֹשִׁי Mi 4:13; Inf. cstr. לָדֻשׁ 2 K 13:7, לָדוּשׁ Ho 10:11, sf. דּוּשָׁם Am. 1:3; דִּישׁוֹ Dt 25:4; abs. אָדוֹשׁ Is 28:28 as if from אדשׁ cf. Köi 444; yet אדשׁ nowhere else \& form very possibly textual error, cf. Ol§ 245 k; Pt. f. דָּשָׁא Je 50:11;—tread on, trample on, c. acc. Jb 39:15 (beast on eggs, ‖ זוּר); thresh, lit. c. acc. חִטִּים 1 Ch 21:20 Je 50:11, לֶחֶם (i.e. its material) Is 28:28 (in sim.); abs. 2 K 13:7 (in sim.); Ho 10:11 (metaph. of Ephraim as heifer); tread or thresh Ju 8:7 with (אֶת = together with, cf. Stu; Ew§ 234 e takes as acc., \& vb. as abbrev. Hiph.) thorns, קוֹצִים and בַּרְקָנִים q.v.; and also in Ju 8:16 (read וידשׁ cf. supr.) sq. בָּהֶם, with them, ref. to קוצים and ברקנים; fig. of devastation of land Am 1:3 (Gilead), destruction of peoples Hb 3:12 (גוים); espec. Mi 4:13 (abs.), where full metaph.; hyperbol. of Israel Is 41:15 c. acc. הרים.— be trampled down, Pf. וְנָדוֹשׁ consec. Is 25:10 fig., subj. Moab; Inf. הִדּוּשׁ ib. (simile, subj. מתבן straw-heap; on form cf. Ol§ 193 a BaNB 156)— be threshed, Impf. יוּדַשׁ Is 28:27 (subj. קֶצַח).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דּוּשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1758/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 25:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.25.4/)

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לֹא־תַחְסֹ֥ם שׁ֖וֹר בְּדִישֽׁוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* not you.will.muzzle an.ox when threshes it

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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[Habakkuk 3:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.12/)

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בְּזַ֖עַם תִּצְעַד־אָ֑רֶץ בְּאַ֖ף תָּד֥וּשׁ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* in indignation you.march \[the\].earth in anger you.trample.down nations

*JPS 1917:* Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.

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