to trample
bus describes trampling opponents, places, or a corpse underfoot, and in Ezekiel depicts struggling in blood.
The attested use most often concerns trampling in hostile or destructive settings: an opponent, peoples, a sanctuary, a desired portion, a corpse, or fighters in battle. A separate Hithpolel participial use in Ezekiel describes a woman struggling in her blood.
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Trampling in conflict or devastation · dominant
In Isaiah 14:25, the Qal imperfect occurs in the stated action against Assyria on the mountains; the APB renders the clause "to trample him upon my mountains." The term likewise occurs where peoples are trampled in anger, enemies have trampled the sanctuary, shepherds have trampled a desired portion, a corpse is "trampled," and warriors are trampling in street mud in Isaiah 63:6, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 12:10, Isaiah 14:19, and Zechariah 10:5.
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Struggling in blood · occasional
The Hithpolel feminine singular participle describes the woman when she is seen "struggling in your blood" in Ezekiel 16:6; Ezekiel 16:22 recalls the same condition during her youth. The APB presents this use as "struggling," rather than explicitly marking an underfoot action.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause makes the contribution clear, the APB commonly uses "trample" or "trampled," including Isaiah 14:19, Isaiah 14:25, Isaiah 63:6, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 12:10, and Zechariah 10:5. It renders the Ezekiel participles as "struggling"; Psalm 44:6 and Proverbs 27:7 do not isolate the term's contribution in the supplied translation.