רָמַס râmaç — to tread upon (as a potter, in walking or abusively)
Translated in the KJV as oppressor, stamp upon, trample, tread (down, upon).
a primitive root; to tread upon (as a potter, in walking or abusively).
râmaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 7Imperfect (yiqtol) 7Infinitive construct 1Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperative 1
And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.
And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be 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 ›