דּוּשׁ dûwsh — to trample or thresh
Translated in the KJV as break, tear, thresh, tread out, at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for H1877).
or דּוֹשׁ; or דִּישׁ; a primitive root; to trample or thresh.
dûwsh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1Imperative 1
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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 ›