Aramaic

To tread

רְפַסStrong’s H7512

rephas (re-phas)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Rephas is the Aramaic word usually translated “trampling”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.”

Daniel 7:7 KJV

Meaning

To tread, trample(P'al) treading, trampling (participle)

How it's translated

trampling 2

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

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 7:19In contextThen I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

Aramaic dictionary

רְפַס rephas · to tread

1) to tread, trample 1a) (P'al) treading, trampling (participle)

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.]

To set the foot.
To walk or go.“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours” Deuteronomy 11:24
To walk with form or state.
To copulate, as fowls.

All definitions and other forms of “tread”

TREAD, verb transitive

tred. To step or walk on.

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

TREAD, noun

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

Way; track; path. [Little used.]
Compression of the male fowl.
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.