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title: מְבוּסָה — down-treading · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מְבוּסָה (4001), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: down-treading. BDB 1906: n.f. down-treading, subjugation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְבוּסָה

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«מְבוּסָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **down-treading** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 4001 · **BDB:** מְבוּסָה

### Glosses

trampling (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְבוּסָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4001/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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!

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