מִרְמָס
mirmâç · meer-mawce'
abasement (the act or the thing)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7429 (רָמַס);
abasement (the act or the thing)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: tread (down) -ing, (to be) trodden (down) under foot.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to support and uphold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִרְמָס 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
7 occurrences · 7 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- thereof, and it shall be trodden down1 · 14%
- and for the treading1 · 14%
- and to tread them down1 · 14%
- then ye shall be trodden down1 · 14%
- that which ye have trodden1 · 14%
- to be trodden under foot1 · 14%
- her: now shall she be trodden down1 · 14%
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.