Dictionaries :: Tread, Trode, Trodden

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Tread, Trode, Trodden:

is used

(a) intransitively and figuratively, of "treading" upon serpents, Luk 10:19;

(b) transitively, of "treading" on, down or under, of the desecration of Jerusalem by its foes, Luk 21:24; Rev 11:2; of the avenging, by the Lord in Person hereafter, of this desecration and of the persecution of the Jews, in Divine retribution, metaphorically spoken of as the "treading" of the winepress of God's wrath, Rev 14:20; 19:15 (cp. Isa 63:2, 3).

Tread, Trode, Trodden:

"to tread down, trample under foot," is used

(a) literally, Mat 5:13; 7:6; Luk 8:5; 12:1;

(b) metaphorically, of "treading under foot" the Son of God, Hbr 10:29, i.e., turning away from Him, to indulge in willful sin.