Strong's Concordance H7291

Original Word: רָדַף
Transliteration: râdaph
Phonetic Spelling: 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).

Usages throughout the bible

Psalms 143:3 - For the enemy hath persecuted H7291 my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Proverbs 11:19 - As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth H7291 evil pursueth it to his own death.

Proverbs 12:11 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth H7291 vain persons is void of understanding.

Proverbs 13:21 - Evil pursueth H7291 sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

Proverbs 15:9 - The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth H7291 after righteousness.

Proverbs 19:7 - All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth H7291 them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

Proverbs 21:21 - He that followeth H7291 after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

Proverbs 28:1 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth: H7291 but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Proverbs 28:19 - He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth H7291 after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. H7291

Isaiah 1:23 - Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth H7291 after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 5:11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow H7291 strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 17:13 - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased H7291 as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 30:16 - But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue H7291 you be swift.

Isaiah 41:3 - He pursued H7291 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 H7291 righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Jeremiah 15:15 - O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; H7291 take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jeremiah 17:18 - Let them be confounded that persecute H7291 me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 20:11 - But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors H7291 shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Jeremiah 29:18 - And I will persecute H7291 them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jeremiah 39:5 - But the Chaldeans' army pursued H7291 after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

Jeremiah 52:8 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued H7291 after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Lamentations 1:3 - Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors H7291 overtook her between the straits.

Lamentations 1:6 - And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. H7291

Lamentations 3:43 - Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted H7291 us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lamentations 3:66 - Persecute H7291 and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

Lamentations 4:19 - Our persecutors H7291 are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:5 - Our necks are under persecution: H7291 we labour, and have no rest.

Ezekiel 35:6 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue H7291 thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue H7291 thee.

Hosea 2:7 - And she shall follow H7291 after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hosea 6:3 - Then shall we know, if we follow H7291 on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Hosea 8:3 - Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue H7291 him.

Hosea 12:1 - Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth H7291 after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Amos 1:11 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue H7291 his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Nahum 1:8 - But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue H7291 his enemies.