Trample

Trample - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

TRAM'PLE, v.t.

1. To tread under foot; especially, to tread upon with pride, contempt, triumph or scorn.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Mat 7.

2. To tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass.

3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLE, v.i. To tread in contempt.

Diogenes trampled on Plato's pride with greater of his own.

1. To tread with force and rapidity.

TRAM'PLE, n. The act of treading under foot with contempt.

Definition

To “trample” means to step on something and smash it with the feet. This term is also used figuratively in the Bible to mean “destroy” or “defeat” or “humiliate.”

• An example of “trampling” would be the smashing down of grass by the feet of people running in a field.
• In ancient times, wine was sometimes made by trampling grapes to remove the juice from them.
• Sometimes the term to “trample” has a figurative meaning of to “punish by humiliating,” comparing it to trampling mud for a threshing floor.
• The term “trample” was used figuratively to express how Yahweh would punish his people Israel for their pride and rebellion.
• Other ways that “trample” could be translated include “crush with the feet” or “smash down with the feet” or “stomp on and crush” or “smash into the ground.”
• Depending on the context, this term could also be translated as “run over,” “walk around on,” or “crush underfoot.”

(See also: grape, shame, punish, rebel, thresh, wine)

Bible References

• Hebrews 10:29
• Psalms 7:5

Word Data

• Strong’s: H0947, H1758, H1869, H4001, H4823, H7429, H7512, G26620, G39610