ramas · trample

What it means

ramas (רָמַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “trample”.

Tread, trample with the feet: the potter's clay, grapes, or a person or thing crushed under those passing by. In 2 Kings 7:17, 20 the people, rushing out through the gate, trample the officer and he dies.

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 crush underfoot.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• trampled ×9
• trample ×4
• tramples ×2
• tramplers ×1
• trampling ×1
• tread ×1
• treads ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×6
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×2
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1

• 2 Kings 7:17

  The king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be over the gate; and the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, as the man of Elohim had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

• 2 Kings 7:20

  And so it happened to him: the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

• 2 Kings 9:33

  He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her.

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then an animal of the field that is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

• 2 Chronicles 25:18

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then an animal of the field that is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

• Psalms 7:5

  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and trample my life to the ground, and make my honor dwell in the dust. Selah.

• Psalms 91:13

  On the fierce lion and the viper you will tread; you will trample the young lion and the serpent.

• Isaiah 1:12

  When you come to appear before my face, who required this from your hand, the trampling of my courts?

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let my banished ones reside as aliens among you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from before the devastator. For the oppressor has come to an end, devastation has ceased, the tramplers have vanished from the land.

• Isaiah 26:6

  The foot tramples it, the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.”

• Isaiah 28:3

  Under feet will be trampled the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.

• Isaiah 41:25

  I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.

• Isaiah 63:3

  “The winepress I have trodden alone, and from the peoples there was no man with me; and I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their juice spattered on my garments, and all my clothing I have stained.

• Ezekiel 26:11

  With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets; your people he will kill by the sword, and the standing stones of your strength to the ground will go down.

• Ezekiel 34:18

  Is it too little for you that you graze on the good pasture and trample with your feet the rest of your pastures? And that you drink the settled water and muddy with your feet what is left?

• Daniel 8:7

  And I saw it reaching the ram, and it was enraged at it and struck the ram and broke its two horns; and there was no strength in the ram to stand before it; and it threw it down to the ground and trampled it, and there was no one to deliver the ram from its hand.

• Daniel 8:10

  And it grew up to the army of the heavens, and made fall to the ground some of the army and of the stars, and trampled them.

• Micah 5:8

  And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which, if it passes through, tramples and tears, and there is no one to deliver.

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.