Strong's #5143: trecho (pronounced trekh'-o)
apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho; compare 2359); which uses dremo drem'-o (the base of 1408) as alternate in certain tenses; to run or walk hastily (literally or figuratively):--have course, run.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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trechō
1) to run
1a) of persons in haste
1b) of those who run in a race course
2) metaphorically
2a) of doctrine rapidly propagated
2b) by a metaphor taken from runners in a race, to exert one' s self, strive hard
2c) to spend one' s strength in performing or attaining something
2d) word occurs in Greek writings denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one' s effort to overcome
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho, compare G2359), which uses dremo (the base of G1408) as alternate in certain tenses
Citing in TDNT: 8:226, 1189
Usage:
This word is used 20 times:
Matthew 27:48: "one of them ran, and took a sponge, and"
Matthew 28:8: "and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word."
Mark 5:6: "when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshiped him,"
Mark 15:36: "And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and"
Luke 15:20: "saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on"
Luke 24:12: "Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulcher; and"
John 20:2: "Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and"
John 20:4: "So they ran both together: and the other disciple"
Romans 9:16: "it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy."
1 Corinthians 9:24: "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all,"
1 Corinthians 9:24: "they which run in a race run all, but one"
1 Corinthians 9:24: "receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain."
1 Corinthians 9:26: "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so"
Galatians 2:2: "privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in"
Galatians 2:2: "to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain."
Galatians 5:7: " Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the"
Philippians 2:16: "the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither"
2 Thessalonians 3:1: "word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as"
Hebrews 12:1: "the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race"
Revelation 9:9: "of chariots of many horses running to battle."
