H4096 H4096
tread, treading-place; place for the foot to step
Appearing once in Deuteronomy 2:5, this term means a footprint's worth of land—literally, 'the tread of the sole of a foot.' God warns Israel not to provoke Edom, because He won't give them even a footstep of Esau's territory. The phrase emphasizes how completely off-limits Edomite land is. Even the smallest incursion is forbidden, down to where one foot lands.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Deuteronomy 2:5 uses this minimal spatial term to underscore divine boundaries: not even 'a tread of a foot-sole' of Edom belongs to Israel. The construct phrase piles up body-part words (foot-sole-tread) to shrink the space to nothing. This is legal rhetoric defining territorial limits with maximum precision—God has allotted zero Edomite land to Jacob's descendants. 1×
AR["وَطْأَةَ"]·ben["মাড়ানো"]·DE["tread-von"]·EN["tread-of"]·FR["tread-de"]·heb["מדרך"]·HI["पैर-रखने-की-जगह"]·ID["injakan"]·IT["tread-di"]·jav["tapak"]·KO["밟을"]·PT["pisar-de"]·RU["наступа"]·ES["pisada-de"]·SW["kiasi-cha-kukanyaga"]·TR["basacak-yer-"]·urd["رکھنے-کی-جگہ"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [מִדְרָךְ] n.[m.] treading- or stepping-place, place for the foot to tread on, only cstr. מִדְרַךְ כַּף־רָ֑גֶל Dt 2:5 treading-place for the sole of a foot (cf. 11:24 = Jos 1:3).