To trample
רָמַסStrong’s H7429ramas (ra-mas)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ramas is the Hebrew word usually translated “it trampled”, “trampled him” and “trampled”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.”
Meaning
- To trample(Qal) · (Niphal) to be trampled
How it's translated
- and it trampled 2
- and they trampled him 1
- and they trampled 1
- and he trampled her 1
- and he may trample 1
- you will trample 1
- to trample 1
- trampler 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- 2 Kings 4
- Psalms 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Daniel 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:10In contextAnd it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
- 2 Kings 7:17And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
- 2 Kings 7:20And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
- 2 Kings 9:33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
- 2 Kings 14:9And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 25:18And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Hebrew dictionary
רָמַס ramas · to trample
1) to trample 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to trample 1a2) trampler (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be trampled
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.