Subjugation
מְבוּסָהStrong’s H4001mevusah (me-vu-sah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mevusah is the Hebrew word usually translated “trampling”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!”
Meaning
- Downtreading, subjugation
How it's translated
- and trampling 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 18:7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
- Isaiah 22:5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Hebrew dictionary
מְבוּסָה mevusah · subjugation
downtreading, subjugation
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “subjugation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUBJUGATION, noun
The act of subduing and bringing under the power or absolute control of another.
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.