H1758 — דּוּשׁ (dûwsh)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H1758
Original: דּוּשׁ
Transliteration: dûwsh (also דּוֹשׁ dôwsh, דִּישׁ dîysh)
Pronunciation: doosh
Part of Speech: Verb (primitive root)
Occurrences: 13 unique verses (17 tokens), 10 books
First Occurrence: Deu 25:4 — "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn]."
Hapax Legomenon: No
Aramaic Cognate: H1759 דּוּשׁ (same form, "to trample," Dan 7:23)

Lexicon Definition¶

A primitive root; to trample or thresh:—break, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11 — KJV "at grass" rendering considered a textual mistake by Strong's for a different root).

Verb Stem Distribution¶

Tallied from hebrew_parser.py output on lemma דושׁ (15 morphological occurrences matching the verb; 2 further K/Q variants account for the 17 token count):

Stem	Count	Typical Sense
Qal	12	thresh, tread out (grain); trample (enemies)
Niphal	2	be trodden down (passive: Isa 25:10 2×)
Hophal	1	be threshed (causative passive: Isa 28:27)

Qal dominates (~80%). Active threshing/trampling is the normal stem; passive stems appear only in the Isaiah trampling oracles.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Only 13 verses, so every rendering is effectively unique. Lemmatized:

Translation Family	Count	%
thresh / threshing / threshed	9	69%
tread / treadeth / trodden out/down	4	31%
tear (Jdg 8:7 — figurative)	1	8%
break (Job 39:15)	1	8%

(Percentages overlap because some verses receive compound renderings.) The semantic center is agricultural threshing; all figurative renderings extend from that image.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Isaiah	4	0.3
Habakkuk	1	1.8
Micah	1	1.0
Amos	1	0.7
Hosea	1	0.5
Judges	1	0.2
Deuteronomy	1	0.1
2 Kings	1	0.1
1 Chronicles	1	0.1
Job	1	0.1

Prophetic concentration: 8 of 13 occurrences fall in the Latter Prophets (Isa/Jer-adjacent Hosea/Amos/Mic/Hab). Highest density by far in Habakkuk (one occurrence in only 56 verses). Absent from Pentateuch apart from a single Deuteronomic case law. Absent from Psalms.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Literal threshing of grain (agricultural)¶

Deu 25:4 — "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn]." (humane case law; cited by Paul in 1 Cor 9:9 / 1 Tim 5:18)
1 Ch 21:20 — "Now Ornan was threshing wheat." (the threshing-floor that becomes the temple site)
Isa 28:28 — "Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart." (measured threshing as a picture of divine wisdom)
Hos 10:11 — "Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out [the corn]." (ox treading grain as metaphor for easy work)

2. Threshing as military conquest / judgment on nations¶

Mic 4:13 — "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people."
Hab 3:12 — "Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger."
Amos 1:3 — "because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron" (Damascus oracle — war-crime imagery)
Isa 41:15 — "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains." (Israel as eschatological threshing sledge)

3. Being trodden down / humiliated (passive — Niphal/Hophal)¶

Isa 25:10 — "Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill." (Niphal — double use; the classic image of ignominious defeat)
Isa 28:27 — "the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument" (Hophal — divine restraint matched to the crop)

4. Punitive tearing / crushing (figurative extension)¶

Jdg 8:7 — "then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness" (Gideon's threat to Succoth — threshing-sledge imagery transferred to human punishment)
2 Ki 13:7 — "the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing." (Hazael's oppression of Jehoahaz)
Job 39:15 — "the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them." (ostrich eggs)

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
לֹא (lôʼ)	H3808	5x (38%)	negation — "not muzzle" (Deu 25:4), "not ever threshing" (Isa 28:28)
יְהֹוָה (YHWH)	H3068	4x (31%)	YHWH as the agent or authorizer of threshing-judgment
דָּקַק (dâqaq — crush to powder)	H1854	3x (23%)	parallel verb — "thresh … and beat small" (Isa 41:15, Mic 4:13)
חָרוּץ (chârûwts — threshing-sledge)	H2742	3x (23%)	instrument cognate — "thresh with a threshing instrument" (Isa 28:27, 41:15, Amos 1:3)
שׂוּם (sûwm — to make/set)	H7760	3x (23%)	"I will make thee a threshing instrument" pattern (Isa 41:15, Mic 4:13)
בַּרְזֶל (barzel — iron)	H1270	2x (15%)	"threshing instruments of iron" (Amos 1:3, Mic 4:13 "horn iron")
עֲגָלָה (ʻăgâlâh — cart/wheel)	H5699	2x (15%)	threshing-cart — "cart wheel turned about" (Isa 28:27–28)
הַר (har — mountain)	H2022	2x (15%)	object of eschatological threshing (Isa 41:15, Mic 4:13)
עַם (ʻam — people)	H5971	2x (15%)	the threshed party — "thou shalt beat in pieces many people" (Mic 4:13)
פָּרָשׁ (pârâsh — horseman)	H6571	2x (15%)	threshing-cart/horsemen parallel (Isa 28:28)

Typical pattern: דּוּשׁ + an iron-toothed sledge (חָרוּץ / מוֹרַג H4173) + a mountain or a people = eschatological reversal in which Zion becomes the threshing instrument and the nations become the crop.

Word Family / Cognates¶

H1759 דּוּשׁ (dûwsh) — Aramaic cognate, "to trample" (Dan 7:23 — the fourth beast "shall tread it down and break it in pieces")
H1786 דַּיִשׁ (dayish) — derived noun: "threshing-time" (Lev 26:5)
H4098 מְדֻשָּׁה (mᵉdushshâh) — derived noun: "a threshing," of a down-trodden people (Isa 21:10 "O my threshing")

Synonyms¶

No discrete synonym list was returned by search_relationships.py for H1758.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms were returned by search_relationships.py for H1758.

Easily Confused Words (overlapping KJV renderings "thresh / tread")¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
חָבַט (châbaṭ)	H2251	"thresh, beat out"	beating grain off by hand with a rod/staff — Ruth 2:17, Jdg 6:11, Isa 27:12, 28:27; small-scale / hidden threshing (contra H1758's sledge-and-oxen threshing)
אָדַשׁ (ʼâdash)	H156	"thresh"	exact synonym listed by Strong's as a primitive root "to tread out [grain]" — likely dialectal or textual variant of H1758; extremely rare
דָּרַךְ (dârak)	H1869	"tread, trample"	tread as walking / treading a bow / treading the winepress (Isa 63:2–3); step-motion rather than circular threshing-floor action
רָמַס (râmas)	H7429	"tread down, trample"	trample with hostile intent (beasts, feet of men) — Dan 7:7, 8:7, 10, 13; covers "trampling" imagery parallel to H1759 Aramaic
בּוּס (bûwç)	H947	"tread down, trample under foot"	contemptuous treading (Isa 14:19, 63:18; Zech 10:5); battlefield trampling
כָּבַשׁ (kâbash)	H3533	"tread down, subdue"	to subjugate / bring into bondage (Gen 1:28 "subdue the earth"); dominion rather than threshing
הָדַךְ (hâdak)	H1915	"tread down"	crush with the foot — hapax (Job 40:12)

H2742 חָרוּץ (chârûwts) — threshing-sledge ("sharp threshing instrument"); explicit partner to H1758 in Isa 28:27, 41:15, Amos 1:3
H4173 מוֹרַג (môwrag) — threshing sledge (2 Sam 24:22, 1 Ch 21:23, Isa 41:15)
H1637 גֹּרֶן (gôren) — threshing-floor
H4671 מֹץ (môts) — chaff (what is winnowed off after threshing)

Semantic Domains¶

UBS / Relationship Domains¶

[002001001024] Impact — search_relationships.py groups dûwsh in the impact / crushing field with words such as H76 אֲבַעְבֻּעָה, H402 אָכְלָה, H779 ארר, H816 אשׁם, H919 בֶּדֶק, and H933 בֹּהַק.

LXX Mapping¶

From PMI-ranked alignment data (Hebrew → Greek):

Greek Equivalent	Strong's	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
ἀλοάω (aloáō) — to thresh	G248	4	10.30	Primary equivalent; LXX choice at Deu 25:4, quoted verbatim in 1 Cor 9:9 and 1 Tim 5:18
τίθημι (títhēmi) — to place/make	G5087	3	3.70	Collateral — maps the "I will make thee" frame (Isa 41:15, Mic 4:13) rather than the verb דּוּשׁ itself
κύριος (kýrios) — Lord	G2962	3	-0.09	Reflects co-occurrence with YHWH, not a rendering of the verb

G248 ἀλοάω is the dominant lexical bridge, but total NT usage is only 3 verses (1 Cor 9:9, 1 Tim 5:18 — both quoting Deu 25:4 — plus 1 Cor 9:10). The bridge is real but narrow: threshing imagery survives in the NT chiefly through the Pauline ox-muzzling quotation.