רָדַף
râdaph · raw-daf'
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
- to run after (usually with hostile intent
- figuratively, (of time) gone by)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › to speak, the word
The head, the highest of the doorway, the way in that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָדַף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
143 occurrences · 143 OT · 0 NT · 119 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- pursued15 · 23%
- and pursued7 · 11%
- shall pursue4 · 6%
- persecute3 · 5%
- and pursue3 · 5%
- to pursue3 · 5%
- when none pursueth3 · 5%
- i have pursued2 · 3%
- he pursued2 · 3%
- but he that followeth2 · 3%
- and chased2 · 3%
- until the pursuers2 · 3%
- from pursuing2 · 3%
- followed2 · 3%
- pursue2 · 3%
- and followeth2 · 3%
- of you shall chase2 · 3%
- and ye shall chase1 · 2%
- i will pursue1 · 2%
- and he pursued1 · 2%
- that he shall follow1 · 2%
- follow1 · 2%
- them, and they did not pursue1 · 2%
- with him, and pursued1 · 2%
- them, and pursued1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.