To trample
בָּשַׁסStrong’s H1318bashas (ba-shas)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bashas is the Hebrew word usually translated “trample you”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.”
Meaning
- To tread down, trample(Poel) trampling
How it's translated
- trample you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּשַׁס bashas · to trample
1) to tread down, trample 1a) (Poel) trampling
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “trample” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRAM'PLE, verb transitive
- To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.“Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet” Matthew 7:6
- To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.
- To treat with pride, contempt and insult.
All definitions and other forms of “trample”
TRAM'PLE, verb intransitive
To tread in contempt.
- To tread with force and rapidity.
TRAM'PLE, noun
The act of treading under foot with contempt.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.