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To tread

דּוּשׁStrong’s H1759

dush

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Dush is the Aramaic word usually translated “it will tread down it”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.”
Daniel 7:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. (P'al) to tread down
How it's translated
  • and it will tread down it 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    דּוּשׁ dush · to tread

    (P'al) to tread down Aramaic of dush (דּוּשׁ "to tread" H1758)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “tread” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    TREAD, verb intransitive

    tred. preterit tense trod; participle passive trod, troden. [Latin trudo.]

    1. To set the foot.
    2. To walk or go.“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours” Deuteronomy 11:24
    3. To walk with form or state.
    4. To copulate, as fowls.
    All definitions and other forms of “tread”

      TREAD, verb transitive

      tred. To step or walk on.

      1. To press under the feet.
      2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well trodden path.
      3. To walk in a formal or stately manner.
      4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred, or to subdue. Psalms 44:5
      5. To compress, as a fowl.

      TREAD, noun

      tred. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; as a nimble tread; cautious tread; doubtful tread

      1. Way; track; path. [Little used.]
      2. Compression of the male fowl.
      3. Manner of stepping; as, a horse has a good tread

      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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.