בָּשַׁס bâshaç — to trample down
Translated in the KJV as tread.
a primitive root; to trample down.
bâshaç in each stem
Po'el
Intensive · active — the action intensified, repeated or brought about; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
בּוֹשַׁסְכֶ֞ם Amos 5:11 Infinitive construct
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›