Buc means “loath” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G947 — bdelyktos (“abominable”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H947 בּוּס (buwc) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. buwc (boos) v. 1. to trample (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include tread, down, polluted, loatheth, and under. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
buwc (boos) v. 1. to trample (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root] KJV: loath, tread (down, under (foot)), be polluted.
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to trample
Usage: 1) to tread down, reject, trample down 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tread down, trample (of warriors) 1a2) of rejection (fig.) 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to tread down (in bad sense) 1b2) to desecrate 1c) (Hithpolel) 1c1) to tread 1c2) to kick out 1c2a) of infants' blind movements 1c2b) of Jerusalem (fig.) 1d) (Hophal) to be trodden down
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render buwc, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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12 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H947.
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H947, grouped by book.
Buc (Strong's H947) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "loath". buwc (boos) v. 1. to trample (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's H947 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H947 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as tread, down, polluted, loatheth, and under. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.