בּוּס bûwç — to trample (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as loath, tread (down, under), be polluted.
a primitive root; to trample (literally or figuratively).
bûwç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Participle (active) 1
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Polel
Perfect (qatal) 2
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Hitpolel
Participle (active) 2
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 1
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
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 ›