H947 — בּוּס (bûwç)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H947
Original: בּוּס
Transliteration: bûwç (bus)
Pronunciation: boos
Part of Speech: Verb (primitive root)
Occurrences: 12 unique verses (14 tokens) in OT
Books: 6 (Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah)
First Occurrence: Psalm 44:5 — "through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

A primitive root; to trample (literally or figuratively): — loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.

Verb Stem Distribution¶

Stem	Count	Forms / Typical Meaning
Qal	8	active tread down / trample (Isa 14:25; Isa 63:6; Zec 10:5; Psa 44:6; Psa 60:14; Psa 108:14; Pro 27:7)
Piel	2	intensive trample / defile by trampling (Isa 63:18; Jer 12:10)
Hophal	1	passive — be trodden down (Isa 14:19, participle "trodden under feet")
Hithpael	2	reflexive / reflexive-intensive — weltering, wallowing (Eze 16:6, 22, "polluted in thine own blood")

(Tallied from ETCBC parsing via hebrew_parser.py — verb occurrences only; the identically-spelled root also yields the proper noun "Jebus/Jebusite," the noun "manger," and the noun "subjugation," which are not counted here.)

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
tread down / shall tread down / will we tread / which tread down / And I will tread down	7	50.0%
trodden / have trodden down / they have trodden / tread him under foot / trodden under feet / under foot / under	6	42.9%
polluted	2	14.3%
loatheth	1	7.1%

(Consolidated from raw search_strongs.py output of 12 distinct KJV phrasings; the two primary senses are the active "tread down" and the passive/reflexive "trodden" — both physical trampling idioms.)

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Isaiah	4	0.31
Psalms	3	0.12
Ezekiel	2	0.16
Zechariah	1	0.47
Proverbs	1	0.11
Jeremiah	1	0.07

Pattern: Concentrated in prophetic literature (Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Zechariah = 8 of 12 verses) and military-lament Psalms (3 of 12). Densest in Zechariah per verse; most frequent absolute count in Isaiah. Absent from Torah and historical narrative — this is a poetic/prophetic verb of conquest, judgment, and ritual defilement.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Military trampling of enemies (victory motif)¶

Psa 44:5 — "Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us."
Psa 60:12 / Psa 108:13 — "Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies."
Zec 10:5 — "And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle."

2. YHWH treading down in wrath (divine warrior)¶

Isa 14:25 — "That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot."
Isa 63:6 — "And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury."

3. Being trodden — humiliation, desecration, defeat¶

Isa 14:19 — "But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch … as a carcase trodden under feet." (Hophal — the king of Babylon)
Isa 63:18 — "our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary."
Jer 12:10 — "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot."

4. Figurative — polluted / weltering in blood¶

Eze 16:6 — "when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood." (Hithpael participle)
Eze 16:22 — "thou wast polluted in thy blood." (Hithpael participle) (Here the root carries a reflexive sense — writhing/wallowing, with the KJV reading "polluted" because trampled blood defiles.)

5. Figurative — the full soul loathes¶

Pro 27:7 — "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb." (Unique metaphorical extension: a satisfied appetite "tramples on" a honeycomb — i.e., spurns / treads down in contempt.)

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
צַר (tsar) — adversary / enemy	H6862	4× (33%)	subject/object of trampling: "tread down our enemies" (Psa 44:5; 60:12; 108:13)
אֱלֹהִים (Elohim)	H430	2× (17%)	agent: "through God we shall tread down" (Psa 60:12; 108:13)
אֶרֶץ (erets) — land	H776	2× (17%)	scene of trampling — land/battlefield
דָּם (dam) — blood	H1818	2× (17%)	"polluted in thine own blood" (Eze 16:6, 22)
חַיִל (chayil) — army/might	H2428	2× (17%)	martial context — mighty men tread down
יָרַד (yarad) — go down	H3381	2× (17%)	descent imagery paired with trampling
עַם (am) — people	H5971	2× (17%)	object: "tread down the people" (Isa 63:6)
הָרַג (harag) — slay	H2026	1× (8%)	slaughter context
גִּבּוֹר (gibbor) — mighty man	H1368	1× (8%)	warrior as trampler (Zec 10:5)
אַף (aph) — anger	H639	1× (8%)	divine wrath trampling (Isa 63:6)

Typical pattern: [subject: God / warrior / mighty men] + bus + [object: tsar / am "enemies/people"] — a conquest formula. Secondary pattern: bus (Hithpael) + dam — weltering in blood for ritual defilement imagery.

Word Family / Cognates¶

H947 בּוּס (bûwç) itself — primitive root; all cognates below share the B-W-S consonantal skeleton but are treated as distinct entries.
אֵבוּס (ebus) — "manger / crib" (Isa 1:3; Pro 14:4; Job 39:9) — a trampled-down feeding place; from the same root's sense of packing down straw.
H4001 מְבוּסָה (mᵉbûwçâh) — "subjugation / trampling down" (Isa 18:2, 7; 22:5) — a noun for the state of being trodden.
תְּבוּסָה (tebusah) — "treading down" (2 Chr 22:7) — construct noun.

Synonyms¶

H5055 נָגַח (nâgach) — push, gore, butt; overlaps with bus in forceful hostile trampling/assault imagery.
H7665 שָׁבַר (shâbar) — break, crush, destroy; overlaps where trampling produces defeat or breaking.
H7843 שָׁחַת (shâchath) — ruin, destroy, corrupt; overlaps in destructive and desolating contexts.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms returned by search_relationships.py for H947.

Easily Confused Words (via shared KJV translation)¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
רָמַס (ramas)	H7429	"tread down / trample"	The primary Hebrew verb for trampling (~18 occurrences); often interchangeable with bus. Ramas focuses on crushing underfoot as process; bus emphasizes overwhelming humiliation.
דּוּשׁ (dush)	H1758	"tread / thresh"	Agricultural — threshing grain with oxen; metaphorically applied to crushing enemies (Isa 41:15; Mic 4:13).
דָּרַךְ (darak)	H1869	"tread / bend (the bow)"	Tread a path / tread the winepress (Isa 63:3); broader than bus — covers walking, treading, bending.
רָפַס (raphas)	H7511	"tread / stamp / foul"	Muddy the waters by trampling (Eze 32:2; 34:18; Pro 6:3); closer to bus's "pollute by treading" idea.
חָלַל (chalal)	H2490	"pollute / profane"	Ritual/cultic profanation; bus's "polluted" (Eze 16) is physical wallowing rather than cultic violation.
טָמֵא (tame')	H2930	"pollute / be unclean"	Standard uncleanness vocabulary; distinct from bus's trampling-to-filth sense.
גָּאַל (ga'al II)	H1351	"pollute / defile"	Defile by mixing/staining (often priestly context); bus defiles by trampling.

G3961 πατέω (pateo) — "to tread, trample" — the principal NT equivalent (Luke 10:19; Rev 11:2; 14:20; 19:15). Though the LXX mapping for H947 is small (bus occurs only 12×), pateo is the cross-testament counterpart via the domain.
G2662 καταπατέω (katapateo) — "to trample down" — intensive compound; used in Dan 8:7, 8:10 LXX for a different Hebrew verb but semantically adjacent.

UBS Semantic Domains¶

Code	Domain Label	Notes
002001001057	Stance	Matches underfoot posture and trampling imagery.
002001001024	Impact	Covers the crushing force and destructive contact implied by trampling down.
002001002005	Despise	Captures the figurative extension from trampling to contempt/loathing.

These three UBS domains trace the root's movement from literal trampling underfoot to destructive impact and, in Proverbs 27:7, contemptuous rejection.

LXX Mapping¶

Greek Equivalent	Strong's	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
αἷμα (haima) — blood	G129	4	4.74	Surface artifact: appears in the Eze 16:6, 22 "polluted in blood" verses, not a semantic equivalent.
ὄρος (oros) — mountain	G3735	3	3.54	Context artifact — "upon my mountains tread him under foot" (Isa 14:25).

Note: H947 has no single dominant LXX verb equivalent because of its low frequency (12 verses) and diverse contexts. The LXX translators used different Greek verbs in different contexts (including συμπατέω, καταπατέω, κυλίω for the Ezekiel weltering-in-blood idiom). This explains the PMI results — the "top" Greek words are nouns from the shared verses, not verb equivalents. A cross-testament trace file is therefore NOT auto-generated for this entry.