Lexical Definition

‎בּוּס‎ bûwç (boos) to trample ^H:V
a primitive root

loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.

• to trample (literally or figuratively)

1) to tread down, reject, trample down
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to tread down, trample (of warriors)
1a2) of rejection (fig.)
1b) (Polel)
1b1) to tread down (in bad sense)
1b2) to desecrate
1c) (Hithpolel)
1c1) to tread
1c2) to kick out
1c2a) of infants' blind movements
1c2b) of Jerusalem (fig.)
1d) (Hophal) to be trodden down

See Greek: ἐμπαίζω · ἐξουδενόω · καταπατέω · μολύνω · πατέω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎בּוּס‎] verb tread down, trample —

Qal Imperfect ‎יָבוּס‎ Ps 60:14* = Ps 108:14* 3 feminine singular ‎תָּבוּס‎ Prov 27:7, ‎אָבוּס‎ Isa 63:6 suffix 3 singular ‎אֲבוּסֶנּוּ‎ Isa 14:25 1 plural ‎נָבוּס‎ Ps 44:6* — tread down, trample (of warriors), no object expressed Zech 10:5 id., figurative with accusative (subject ‎׳‎‎י‎, as warrior) Isa 14:25 compare Ps 60:14* = Ps 108:14*; Isa 63:6 (subject men, with God's help) Ps 44:6* figurative = reject, loathe Prov 27:7. Pol. Perfect ‎בּוֺסְסוּ‎ Isa 63:18 ‎בֹּסְסוּ‎ Jer 12:10 — tread down in bad sense, subject enemies of ‎׳‎‎י‎, object accusative Jer 12:10 (in metaphor); = desecrate (object ‎מקדשׁ‎) Isa 63:18. Hithpolel Participle feminine ‎מִתְבּוֺסֶסֶת‎ Ezek 16:6; Ezek 16:22 — of the blind movements of infant's limbs, kick out (this way and that), figurative of Jerusalem. Hoph`al Participle ‎מוּבָ֑ס‎ Isa 14:19 — passive trodden down Isa 14:19, of corpse, simile of king of Babylon.

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