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Lexicon :: Strong's G1377 - diōkō

Aa
διώκω
Transliteration
diōkō (Key)
Pronunciation
dee-o'-ko
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb dio (to flee; cf the base of δειλός (G1169) and διάκονος (G1249))
mGNT
45x in 26 unique form(s) TR
44x in 27 unique form(s) LXX
69x in 26 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:229,177

Strong’s Definitions

διώκω diṓkō, dee-o'-ko; a prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb δίω díō (to flee; compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute:—ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute(-ion), press forward.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's G1377 in the following manner: persecute (28x), follow after (6x), follow (4x), suffer persecution (3x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's G1377 in the following manner: persecute (28x), follow after (6x), follow (4x), suffer persecution (3x), miscellaneous (3x).

  1. to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away

  2. to run swiftly in order to catch a person or thing, to run after

    1. to press on: figuratively of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal

    2. to pursue (in a hostile manner)

  3. in any way whatever to harass, trouble, molest one

    1. to persecute

    2. to be mistreated, suffer persecution on account of something

  4. without the idea of hostility, to run after, follow after: someone

  5. metaph., to pursue

    1. to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavour to acquire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διώκω diṓkō, dee-o'-ko; a prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb δίω díō (to flee; compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute:—ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute(-ion), press forward.
STRONGS G1377:
διώκω; imperfect ἐδίωκον; future διώξω (Matthew 23:34; Luke 21:12; John 15:20; 2 Samuel 22:38; Wis. 19:2; a rarer form for the more common Attic διώξομαι, cf. Bttm. Ausf. Spr: 2:154; Winers Grammar, 84 (80); [Buttmann, 53 (46); especially Veitch, under the word; Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 377]); 1 aorist ἐδίωξα; passive [present διώκομαι]; perfect participle δεδιωγμένος; 1 future διωχθήσομαι; (from δίω, to flee); Sept. commonly for רָדַף;
1. to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away: (τινὰ) ἀπό πόλεως εἰς πόλιν, Matthew 23:34, cf. 10:23 Griesbach.
2. to run swiftly in order to catch some person or thing, to run after; absolutely (Homer, Iliad 23, 344; Sophocles El. 738, etc.; διώκειν δρόμῳ, Xenophon, an. 6, 5, 25; cf. 7, 2, 20), to press on: figuratively, of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal, Philippians 3:12 (where distinguished from καταλαμβάνειν [cf. Herodotus 9, 58; Lucian, Hermot. 77]), Philippians 3:14. to pursue (in a hostile manner): τινά, Acts 26:11; Revelation 12:13. Hence,
3. in any way whatever to harass, trouble, molest one; to persecute, (cf. Latin persequor, German verfolgen): Matthew 5:10-12, 44; Matthew 10:23; Luke 21:12; [Luke 11:49 WH Tr marginal reading]; John 5:16; John 15:20; Acts 7:52; Acts 9:4; Acts 22:4, 7; Acts 26:14; Romans 12:14; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Galatians 1:13, 23; Galatians 4:29; Galatians 5:11; Philippians 3:6; 2 Timothy 3:12; passive with a dative denoting the cause, to be maltreated, suffer persecution on account of something, Galatians 6:12 [here L marginal reading T read διώκονται (others, -κωνται), see WHs Appendix, p. 169; on the dative see Winers Grammar, § 31, 6 c.; Buttmann, 186 (161)].
4. without the idea of hostility, to run after, follow after: someone, Luke 17:23.
5. metaphorically, with the accusative of thing, to pursue i. e. to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to acquire: Romans 9:30 (distinguished here from καταλαμβάνειν); 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 2:22, (in both passages opposed to φεύγειν); νόμον δικαιοσύνης, Romans 9:31, (Proverbs 15:9; τὸ δίκαιον, Deuteronomy 16:20; Sir. 27:8, where distinguished from καταλαμβάνειν); τ. φιλοξενίαν, Romans 12:13; τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης, Romans 14:19 [here L marginal reading Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading T read διώκομεν (for the διώκωμεν of others), see WH's Appendix, p. 169]; τ. ἀγάπην, 1 Corinthians 14:1; τὸ ἀγαθόν, 1 Thessalonians 5:15; εἰρήνην, Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 3:11 (here joined with ζητεῖν τι); times without number in Greek writings (from Homer, Iliad 17, 75 διώκειν ἀκιχητα on; as τιμάς, ἀρετήν, τὰ καλά, [cf. Winer's Grammar, 30]). [Compare: ἐκ-, καταδιώκω.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
16:20
2 Samuel
22:38
Proverbs
15:9
Matthew
5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 5:44; 10:23; 10:23; 23:34; 23:34
Luke
11:49; 17:23; 21:12; 21:12
John
5:16; 15:20; 15:20
Acts
7:52; 9:4; 22:4; 22:7; 26:11; 26:14
Romans
9:30; 9:31; 12:13; 12:14; 14:19
1 Corinthians
4:12; 14:1; 15:9
2 Corinthians
4:9
Galatians
1:13; 1:23; 4:29; 5:11; 6:12
Philippians
3:6; 3:12; 3:14
1 Thessalonians
5:15
1 Timothy
6:11
2 Timothy
2:22; 3:12
Hebrews
12:14
1 Peter
3:11
Revelation
12:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1377 matches the Greek διώκω (diōkō),
which occurs 45 times in 44 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:10 - Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:11 - Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:23 - But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:34 - For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:49 - For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:23 - And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:12 - But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:16 - And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:20 - Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:52

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:52 - Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:4 - And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:5 - And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4 - And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:7 - And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:8 - And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:11 - And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:14 - And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:15 - And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:30 - What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:31 - But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:13 - Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:14 - Give blessing and not curses to those who are cruel to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:19 - So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:12 - And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:1 - Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:9 - For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:9 - We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:13 - For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:23 - Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:29 - But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:11 - But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:12 - Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:6 - In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:12 - Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:14 - I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:15 - Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:11 - But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22 - But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:12 - Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:14 - Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:11 - And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:13 - And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.
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