dush · thresh, trample

What it means

dush (דּוּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thresh, trample”.

Thresh: tread the grain to separate it from the straw; also to trample.

How to say it

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 grain to separate it; or crush an enemy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• thresh ×5
• threshing ×4
• threshed ×2
• trampled ×2
• may trample them ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Isaiah×5
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Deuteronomy 25:4

  You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

• Judges 8:7

  Gideon said, “Therefore, when YHWH gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with the briers.”

• 2 Kings 13:7

  For he had not left Jehoahaz any people except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had made them perish and made them like the dust at threshing.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20

  Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

• Job 39:15

  and forgets that a foot may crush them, and the animal of the field may trample them.

• Isaiah 25:10

  For the hand of YHWH will rest on this mountain, and Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled in the dung pit.

• Isaiah 28:27

  For black cumin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; but black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

• Isaiah 28:28

  Bread grain is crushed, but he does not keep threshing it forever; and though he drives the wheel of his cart and his horses, he does not crush it.

• Isaiah 41:15

  Look, I have made you into a threshing sledge, sharp, new, double-edged; you will thresh mountains and crush them, and the hills like chaff you will make.

• Hosea 10:11

  And Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will pass over the beauty of her neck; I will make Ephraim ride; Judah will plow; Jacob will harrow for himself.

• Amos 1:3

  Thus says YHWH: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke it; because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

• Micah 4:13

  “Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make iron, and your hoofs I will make bronze, and you will crush many peoples; and you will devote completely to YHWH their gain, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”

• Habakkuk 3:12

  In indignation you march through the earth; in anger you thresh the nations.

And 1 more times.