48 occurrences in 12 translations

'Persecute' in the Bible

The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecute him:

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking IsraelBitternessharassment

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Verse ConceptsHuntingPersecution

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Verse ConceptsRoots

“You have become cruel to me;With the might of Your hand You persecute me.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofStrictness

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.} O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Verse ConceptsSuffering SaintsPersecution, Christian ResponseTrust

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleOvertakingPsalm Interjectionsrelentless

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Verse ConceptsAxesPursuing ViolenceThrowing SpearsWeapons Of GodGod My Salvationdeliverance

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Verse ConceptsWalking In DarknessSlipperynessDarkness Of EvilEvil WaysPersecutionPaths

Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

Verse ConceptsInsultsEnemy Attacksoppressionpressureharassment

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of WickedPersecution, Nature OfGod Beating PeopleHurtharassment

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentPursuing PeopleGod Abandoning IndividualsNo One Can Save

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Verse ConceptsStormsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Verse ConceptsWaitingBefore God Acts

Those who follow after wickedness approach;They are far from Your law.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Law

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won't envy Judah, and Judah won't persecute Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsJealousyAvoiding Jealousyharassment

Let them be confounded that persecute 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.

Verse ConceptsDouble Penalty

But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.

Verse ConceptsStumblingSuffering, Encouragements InWarriorsNot ForgettingGod With Specific PeopleGod As A WarriorShame Will ComeCauses of failure inMighty in its influenceDisappointmentMotivationadvertisingprospering

And I will persecute 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:

Verse ConceptsHissingFamine Coming From GodMade A Horror

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

Verse ConceptsRevenge, And RetaliationProphecies Said By JesusCities In IsraelChrist Telling The TruthIsrael FleeingThe Timing Of His ComingPersecutionMoving To A New Placeisraelfinishing

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Verse ConceptsFloggingMediatorSuffering, Of BelieversTownCharacter AssassinationBeating BelieversCrucifiedKilling Will HappenOthers CrucifiedWise Men In The Church

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

Verse ConceptsGod, Wisdom OfGod Sends ProphetsKilling Will HappenPersecution

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsImprisonmentsPersecution, Nature OfPersecution PredictedBeforeHanding Over PeopleGentile RulersPersecutionjail

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Nature OfPlottingPersecution Of ChristThe Sabbath And ChristWhy People Did Things

and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

Verse ConceptsAn Overpowering PresenceDuplicating WordsBowing Before MessiahPersecutiondamascus

And he said, 'Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinWho Is Jesus?Persecution

I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Tumbling

And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute --

Verse ConceptsWho Is Jesus?

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsBlasphemy

and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!

Verse ConceptsGoadsLanguagesPainStriving With GodUnion With Christ, Significance OfLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureDuplicating WordsSharp ToolsKickingPeople Tumbling

'And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;

Verse ConceptsWho Is Jesus?Persecution

For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it;

Verse ConceptsPaul, Life OfZeal, Without KnowledgeDestruction Of The ChurchThe Church UniversalChurch Of GodPersecutionchristianitypasttrying

The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of Beliefsenemies, of Jesus ChristGospel, Transmission OfPersecution, Forms Of

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;

Verse ConceptsConcubinesPersecution, Nature OfLife In A Material WorldThe Promise Of A BabyPersecutionSatanic Hatred

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

Verse ConceptsExcommunicationKilling ProphetsProphets KilledChrist Was KilledNot Pleasing GodRaceprophets

Bible Theasaurus

Oppress (69 instances)
Persecute (48 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּלק 
Dalaq 
Usage: 9

מרדּף 
Murdaph 
Usage: 1

רדף 
Radaph 
Usage: 143

διωγμός 
Diogmos 
Usage: 7

διώκτης 
Dioktes 
Usage: 1

διώκω 
Dioko 
Usage: 28

ἐκδιώκω 
Ekdioko 
Usage: 1

θλίψις 
Thlipsis 
Usage: 33

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