'Ran' in the Bible

Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.

He looked up, and he saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed to the ground.

Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and Laban ran out to the man at the spring.

He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

When he heard me screaming for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside.”

but when I screamed for help, he left his garment with me and ran outside.”

Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

So Aaron took his firepan as Moses had ordered, ran into the middle of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. After he added incense, he made atonement for the people.

So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the money underneath.

When he held out his hand, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They ran, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

So Joshua and the Israelites finished inflicting a terrible slaughter on them until they were destroyed, although a few survivors ran away to the fortified cities.

The border descended to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. It ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the south Jebusite slope and downward to En-rogel.

Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, and cried out as they ran.

The woman ran quickly to her husband and told him, “The man who came to me today has just come back!”

He ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.”“I didn’t call,” Eli replied. “Go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.

That same day, a Benjaminite man ran from the battle and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn, and there was dirt on his head.

They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else.

David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were.

When the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly to the battle line to meet the Philistine.

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword, pulled it from its sheath, and used it to kill him. Then he cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they ran.

and Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. As the spear struck the wall, David eluded Saul, ran away, and escaped that night.

He said to the young man, “Run and find the arrows I’m shooting.” As the young man ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.

“No matter what, I want to run!”“Then run!” Joab said to him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

But then, at the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. Shimei was informed, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

So the water ran all around the altar; he even filled the trench with water.

The power of the Lord was on Elijah, and he tucked his mantle under his belt and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Then Elijah became afraid and immediately ran for his life. When he came to Beer-sheba that belonged to Judah, he left his servant there,

Elisha left the oxen, ran to follow Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you.”“Go on back,” he replied, “for what have I done to you?”

I did not send these prophets,yet they ran with a message.I did not speak to them,yet they prophesied.

צ TsadeOur steps were closely followedso that we could not walk in our streets.Our end drew near; our time ran out.Our end had come!

A wall on the outside ran in front of the chambers, parallel to them, toward the outer court; it was 87½ feet long.

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision. The men who were with me did not see it, but a great terror fell on them, and they ran and hid.

But all this has happened so that the prophetic Scriptures would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and ran away.

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, and offered Him a drink.

So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell His disciples the news.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

All of a sudden, when the whole crowd saw Him, they were amazed and ran to greet Him.

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Then they all deserted Him and ran away.

but he left the linen cloth behind and ran away naked.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, offered Him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take Him down!”

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. When he stooped to look in, he saw only the linen cloths. So he went home, amazed at what had happened.

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

So she ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put Him!”

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people, greatly amazed, ran toward them in what is called Solomon’s Colonnade.

When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?”

She recognized Peter’s voice, and because of her joy, she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gateway.

Then, setting sail from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

Then the man who had the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they ran out of that house naked and wounded.

Taking along soldiers and centurions, he immediately ran down to them. Seeing the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow jammed fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves.