בּוּס

bus · trample

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H947 · appears 12 times in the Bible

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What it means

bus (בּוּס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “trample”.

To trample, to tread down with the feet; said of one who crushes a defeated enemy.

How to say it

bus

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To tread down hard.
  2. To thrash about on the ground, unable to get up.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • will trample ×3
  • wallowing ×2
  • I trod down ×1
  • have trodden down ×1
  • they have trampled ×1
  • trampled underfoot ×1
  • tramples ×1
  • trampling ×1
  • we trample ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Psalms 44:5

    Through you our adversaries we gore; in your name we trample those who rise against us.

  • Psalms 60:12

    With Elohim we will do mighty deeds, and he will trample our adversaries.

  • Psalms 108:13

    With Elohim we will do mighty deeds, and he will trample our adversaries.

  • Proverbs 27:7

    A sated soul tramples the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Isaiah 14:19

    but you have been cast out away from your grave like a loathed shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

  • Isaiah 14:25

    to break Assyria in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him; and his yoke will depart from them, and his burden will depart from his shoulder.”

  • Isaiah 63:6

    And I trod down peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I brought down to the earth their juice.”

  • Isaiah 63:18

    For a little while your holy people possessed it; our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

  • Jeremiah 12:10

    Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled my portion; they have made the portion of my delight a wilderness of desolation.

  • Ezekiel 16:6

    And I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, “Live”; and I said to you in your blood, “Live.”

  • Ezekiel 16:22

    And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

  • Zechariah 10:5

    And they will be like mighty men trampling in the mud of the streets in battle; and they will fight, for YHWH is with them, and they will put to shame the riders of horses.