Word Study · Strong's H947 · Hebrew
בּוּס
bus
boos
Strong's 1890 spelling: bûwç
“to trample (literally or figuratively)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
to trample (literally or figuratively)
Rendered in the KJV as
loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
- 12occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 11inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 12 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 11
- יָב֥וּס2
- אֲבוּסֶ֑נּוּ1
- בּוֹסִ֨ים1
- בּוֹסְס֖וּ1
- בֹּסְס֖וּ1
- וְאָב֤וּס1
- מוּבָֽס׃1
- מִתְבּוֹסֶ֖סֶת1
- מִתְבּוֹסֶ֥סֶת1
- נָב֥וּס1
- תָּב֣וּס1
How it is rendered · 9
- he will tread down2
- kicking about2
- they have trodden down2
- and I may tread down1
- I will tread down it1
- it treads down1
- treading down1
- trodden down1
- we tread down1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 9
- verb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person common plural2
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular2
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singular2
- HC/Vqu1cs1
- verb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singular1
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common plural1
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
- verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person feminine singular1
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HVpp3cp · 2
- HVqi3ms · 2
- HVtrfsa · 2
- HC/Vqu1cs · 1
- HVHsmsa · 1
- HVqi1cp · 1
- HVqi1cs/Sp3ms · 1
- HVqi3fs · 1
- HVqrmpa · 1
All 12, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Isaiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 44:5נָב֥וּסnavusverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common pluralThrough You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.here: we tread down
- Psalms 60:12יָב֥וּסyavusverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularWith God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.here: he will tread down
- Psalms 108:13יָב֥וּסyavusverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singularWith God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.here: he will tread down
Isaiah4 occurrences
- Isaiah 14:19מוּבָֽס׃muvasverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · masculine singularBut you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.here: trodden down
- Isaiah 14:25אֲבוּסֶ֑נּוּʾavusenuverb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singularI will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”here: I will tread down it
- Isaiah 63:6וְאָב֤וּסveavusHC/Vqu1csI trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”here: and I may tread down
- Isaiah 63:18בּוֹסְס֖וּbosuverb · intensive (piel), completed action · 3rd person common pluralFor a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.here: they have trodden down
Ezekiel2 occurrences
- Ezekiel 16:6מִתְבּוֹסֶ֖סֶתmitbosesetverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularThen I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’here: kicking about
- Ezekiel 16:22מִתְבּוֹסֶ֥סֶתmitbosesetverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle (“the one who…”) · feminine singularAnd in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.here: kicking about