Trample

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Καταπατέω (Strong'S #2662 — Verb — katapateo — kat-ap-at-eh'-o )

"to tread down, trample under foot," is rendered "trample" in  Matthew 7:6 . See Tread , No. 2.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) Fig.: To treat with contempt and insult.

(2): ( v. i.) To tread with force and rapidity; to stamp.

(3): ( v. i.) To tread in contempt; - with on or upon.

(4): ( v. t.) To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.

(5): ( n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling.

King James Dictionary

TRAM'PLE,

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.  Matthew 7 .

2. To tread down to prostrate by treading as, to trample grass. 3. To treat with pride, contempt and insult.

TRAM'PLE, 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.