Strong's #7291: radaph (pronounced raw-daf')
a primitive root; to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by):--chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râdaph
1) to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to pursue, put to flight, chase, dog, attend closely upon
1a2) to persecute, harass (figuratively)
1a3) to follow after, aim to secure (figuratively)
1a4) to run after (a bribe) (figuratively)
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be pursued
1b2) one pursued (participle)
1c) (Piel) to pursue ardently, aim eagerly to secure, pursue
1d) (Pual) to be pursued, be chased away
1e) (Hiphil) to pursue, chase
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 143 times:
Judges 8:4: "that were with him, faint, yet pursuing"
Judges 8:5: "they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings"
Judges 8:12: "And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two"
Judges 9:40: "And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded,"
Judges 20:43: "Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trod them down with ease over against"
1 Samuel 7:11: "went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until"
1 Samuel 17:52: "and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come"
1 Samuel 23:25: "of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon."
1 Samuel 23:28: "Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against"
1 Samuel 24:14: "after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after"
1 Samuel 25:29: "Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord"
1 Samuel 26:18: "Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what"
1 Samuel 26:20: "a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains."
1 Samuel 30:8: "inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake"
1 Samuel 30:8: "troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover"
1 Samuel 30:10: "But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred"
2 Samuel 2:19: "And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to"
2 Samuel 2:24: "Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they"
2 Samuel 2:28: "and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more,"
2 Samuel 17:1: "twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:"
2 Samuel 18:16: "the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for"
2 Samuel 20:6: "thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced"
2 Samuel 20:7: "the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son"
2 Samuel 20:10: "So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri."
2 Samuel 20:13: "went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri."
2 Samuel 22:38: " I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed"
2 Samuel 24:13: "before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days'"
1 Kings 20:20: "and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped"
2 Kings 5:21: "So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after"
2 Kings 9:27: "of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also"
2 Kings 25:5: "And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho:"
2 Chronicles 13:19: "And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,"
2 Chronicles 14:13: "and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians"
Nehemiah 9:11: "the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone"
Job 13:25: "Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?"
Job 19:22: "Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"
Job 19:28: "But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found"
Job 30:15: "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away"
Psalms 7:1: "my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver"
Psalms 7:5: "Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay"
Psalms 18:37: " I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed."
Psalms 23:6: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell"
Psalms 31:15: "deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute"
Psalms 34:14: "and do good; seek peace, and pursue"
Psalms 35:3: "also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation."
Psalms 35:6: "and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute"
Psalms 38:20: "good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good"
Psalms 69:26: "For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief"
Psalms 71:11: "Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver"
Psalms 83:15: "So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm."
