הָדַךְ hâdak — to crush with the foot
Translated in the KJV as tread down.
a primitive root (compare H1854); to crush with the foot.
hâdak in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Imperative 1
וַהֲדֹ֖ךְ Job 40:12 Imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
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 ›