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:
Psalms 109:16: "not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay"
Psalms 119:84: "when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute"
Psalms 119:86: "All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help"
Psalms 119:150: "They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law."
Psalms 119:157: "Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:161: "Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word."
Psalms 142:6: "for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger"
Psalms 143:3: "For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell"
Proverbs 11:19: "As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death."
Proverbs 12:11: "his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding."
Proverbs 13:21: "Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repaid."
Proverbs 15:9: "is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness."
Proverbs 19:7: "him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting"
Proverbs 21:21: " He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honor."
Proverbs 28:1: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
Proverbs 28:19: "his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough."
Ecclesiastes 3:15: "hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
Isaiah 1:23: "every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,"
Isaiah 5:11: "Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine"
Isaiah 17:13: "but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before"
Isaiah 30:16: "and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift."
Isaiah 41:3: " He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet."
Isaiah 51:1: "Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto"
Jeremiah 15:15: "remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering:"
Jeremiah 17:18: "Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not"
Jeremiah 20:11: "me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail:"
Jeremiah 29:18: " And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all"
Jeremiah 39:5: "But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains"
Jeremiah 52:8: "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah"
Lamentations 1:3: "among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between"
Lamentations 1:6: "without strength before the pursuer."
Lamentations 3:43: "Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."
Lamentations 3:66: " Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."
Lamentations 4:19: " Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon"
Lamentations 5:5: "Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest."
Ezekiel 35:6: "I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood,"
Ezekiel 35:6: "hated blood, even blood shall pursue"
Hosea 2:7: " And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find"
Hosea 6:3: "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning;"
Hosea 8:3: "hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue"
Hosea 12:1: "Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth"
Amos 1:11: "I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity,"
Nahum 1:8: "an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies."
