דּוּשׁ
dûwsh · doosh
to trample or thresh
Lexicon
Derivation: or דּוֹשׁ; or דִּישׁ; a primitive root;
to trample or thresh
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: break, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for H1877 (דֶּשֶׁא)).
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to fasten and establish › to consume, to destroy
The doorway, the way in that works to fasten and establish that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דּוּשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- then i will tear1 · 7%
- by threshing1 · 7%
- was threshing1 · 7%
- may break1 · 7%
- shall be trodden down1 · 7%
- is trodden down1 · 7%
- are not threshed1 · 7%
- be threshing1 · 7%
- thou shalt thresh1 · 7%
- at grass1 · 7%
- to tread out1 · 7%
- the punishment thereof; because they have threshed1 · 7%
- and thresh1 · 7%
- thou didst thresh1 · 7%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.