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title: בּוּס — tread down · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בּוּס (947), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: tread down. BDB 1906: vb. tread down, trample Poʿl. Hithpoʿl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בּוּס

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«בּוּס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tread down** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 947 · **BDB:** בּוּס

### Glosses

he.will.tread.down (2); kicking.about (2); they.have.trodden.down (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tread down [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. tread down, trample Poʿl. Hithpoʿl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tread down, trample— Impf. יָבוּס ψ 60:14 = 108:14; 3 fs. תָּבוּס Pr 27:7, אָבוּס Is 63:6; sf. 3 s. אֲבוּסֶנּוּ Is 14:25; 1 pl. נָבוּס ψ 44:6;—tread down, trample (of warriors), no obj. expr. Zc 10:5; id., fig. c. acc. (subj. י׳, as warrior) Is 14:25 cf. ψ 60:14 = 108:14 Is 63:6; (subj. men, with God’s help) ψ 44:6; fig. = reject, loathe Pr 27:7. Poʿl. Pf. בּוֹסְסוּ Is 63:18; בֹּסְסוּ Je 12:10—tread down, in bad sense, subj. enemies of י׳, obj. acc. Je 12:10 (in metaph.): = desecrate (obj. מקדשׁ) Is 63:18. Hithpoʿl. Pt. f. מִתְבּוֹסֶסֶת Ez 16:6, 22—of the blind movements of infant’s limbs, kick out (this way and that), fig. of Jerusalem. Pt. מוּרָ֑ס Is 14:19—pass. trodden down Is 14:19, of corpse, sim. of king of Babylon.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בּוּס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/947/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 60:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.14/)

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בֵּֽאלֹהִ֥ים נַעֲשֶׂה־חָ֑יִל וְ֝ה֗וּא יָב֥וּס צָרֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* in God we.will.do strength and he he.will.tread.down foes our

*JPS 1917:* Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.

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[Psalms 108:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.108.14/)

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בֵּֽאלֹהִ֥ים נַעֲשֶׂה־חָ֑יִל וְ֝ה֗וּא יָב֥וּס צָרֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* in God we.will.do strength and he he.will.tread.down foes our

*JPS 1917:* Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.

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