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To press

עָסַסStrong’s H6072

asas (a-sas)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Asas is the Hebrew word usually translated “tread down”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Malachi 4:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To press, crush, press by treading, tread down or out, press (grapes)(Qal) to press
How it's translated
  • and you will tread down 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Malachi 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    עָסַס asas · to press

    1) to press, crush, press by treading, tread down or out, press (grapes) 1a) (Qal) to press

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    PRESS, verb transitive

    [Latin pressus.]

    1. To urge with force or weight; a word of extensive use, denoting the application of any power, physical or moral, to something that is to be moved or affected.
    2. To squeeze; to crush; as, to press grapes. Genesis 40:11
    3. To drive with violence; to hurry; as, to press a horse in motion, or in a race.
    4. To urge; to enforce; to inculcate with earnestness; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
    All definitions and other forms of “press”
    1. To embrace closely; to hug.
    2. To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
    3. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or with difficulties.
    4. To constrain; to compel; to urge by authority or necessity.“The posts that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment” Esther 8:14
    5. To urge; to impose by importunity.
    6. To urge or solicit with earnestness or importunity.
    7. To urge; to constrain.“Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ” Acts 18:5
    8. To squeeze for making smooth; as cloth or paper.

    PRESS, verb intransitive

    To urge or strain in motion; to urge forward with force.

    1. “I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” Philippians 3:14
    2. To bear on with force; to encroach.
    3. To bear on with force; to crowd; to throng.
    4. To approach unseasonably or importunately.
    5. To urge with vehemence and importunity.“He pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in to him” Genesis 19:3
    6. To urge by influence or moral force.
    7. To push with force; as, to press against the door.

    PRESS, noun

    1. An instrument or machine by which any body is squeezed, crushed or forced into a more compact form; as a wine-press, cider-press or cheese-press.
    2. A machine for printing; a printing-press.
    3. The art or business of printing and publishing.
    4. A crowd; a throng; a multitude of individuals crowded together.“And when they could not come nigh to him for the press--” Mark 2:4
    5. The act of urging or pushing forward.
    6. A wine-vat or cistern. Haggai 2:16
    7. A case of closet for the safe keeping of garments.
    8. Urgency; urgent demands of affairs; as a press of business.
    9. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy; for impress.

    PRESS'-BED, noun

    A bed that may be raised and inclosed in a case.

      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.