62 occurrences

'Pursue' in the Bible

they have gone out of the city -- they have not gone far off -- and Joseph hath said to him who is over his house, 'Rise, pursue after the men; and thou hast overtaken them, and thou hast said unto them, Why have ye recompensed evil for good?

Verse ConceptsIngratitudePeople Not Far AwayRepaying Evil For Good

and the Egyptians pursue after them, and all the chariot horses of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his force, overtake them, encamping by the sea, by Pi-Hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahHorsesCavalryOvertakingComing To The Red Sea

And the Egyptians pursue, and go in after them (all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen) unto the midst of the sea,

Verse ConceptsCavalry

The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --

Verse ConceptsPursuingSelf ConfidencePursuing PeopleArrogance, Characterizes The WickedOvertakingDividing The Spoil

and five of you have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleMinoritiesFive PeopleOne HundredTens Of ThousandsMany EnemiesPeople Overcomingflying

and the Amorite who is dwelling in that hill-country cometh out to meet you, and they pursue you as the bees do, and smite you in Seir -- unto Hormah.

Verse ConceptsBeesInsects

Righteousness -- righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsJustice

lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him -- the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot HatingDeath Of A Family Member

How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRocksPursuing PeopleA Thousand PeopleTens Of Thousands

and it cometh to pass -- the gate is to be shut -- in the dark, and the men have gone out; I have not known whither the men have gone; pursue ye, hasten after them, for ye overtake them;'

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

and the men of Ai smite of them about thirty and six men, and pursue them before the gate unto Shebarim, and they smite them in Morad; and the heart of the people is melted, and becometh water.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesUnguarded

and ye, stand not, pursue after your enemies, and ye have smitten the hindmost of them; suffer them not to go in unto their cities, for Jehovah your God hath given them into your hand.'

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSmitingThose God Gave Into Their HandsEnemy Attacks

and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of Israel, and they smite them and pursue them unto the great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-Maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward, and they smite them, till he hath not left to them a remnant;

Verse ConceptsConquestNo SurvivorsExterminationThose God Gave Into Their Hands

'And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto;

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot Hating

one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance, basis ofPursuing PeopleA Thousand People

And I bring out your fathers from Egypt, and ye go into the sea, and the Egyptians pursue after your fathers, with chariot and with horsemen, to the Red Sea;

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtComing To The Red Sea

And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofInjuryKnivesCaptivesMutilationThumbsToesCutting Off Hands And Feet

and he saith unto them, 'Pursue after me, for Jehovah hath given your enemies, the Moabites, into your hand;' and they go down after him, and capture the passages of the Jordan towards Moab, and have not permitted a man to pass over.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.

and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they have slain at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue unto Midian; and the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they have brought in unto Gideon beyond the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsWinepressSkullsTreading GrapesNamed Gentile RulersTwo Other Men

And the men of Israel go out from Mizpeh, and pursue the Philistines, and smite them unto the place of Beth-Car.

and all the men of Israel, who are hiding themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, have heard that the Philistines have fled, and they pursue -- even they -- after them in battle.

Verse ConceptsHeatHiding From PeoplePeoples Who Fled

And the men of Israel rise -- also Judah -- and shout, and pursue the Philistines till thou enter the valley, and unto the gates of Ekron, and the wounded of the Philistines fall in the way of Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron,

Verse ConceptsGatesRoadsTribes Of Israel

And man riseth to pursue thee and to seek thy soul, and the soul of my lord hath been bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; as to the soul of thine enemies, He doth sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.

Verse ConceptsSlingsThrowing Stones

and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, 'I pursue after this troop -- do I overtake it?' And He saith to him, 'Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.'

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodAnswered PrayerOvertakingRecoveryFamily Conflict

And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which is on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and all the people stand still, and pursue no more after Israel, nor have they added any more to fight.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetCessationStopping FightingTrumpets To Stop Fighting

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, 'Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night,

Verse ConceptsadvisersThe Number TwelvePursuingEleven To Nineteen Thousand

and David saith unto Abishai, 'Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself from our eye.'

Verse ConceptsFortressesFortified CitiesPeople Possibly Doing Evil

And the men of Joab go out after him, and the Cherethite, and the Pelethite, and all the mighty men, and they go out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri;

When he hath been removed out of the highway, every man hath passed on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba son of Bichri.

I pursue mine enemies and destroy them, And I turn not till they are consumed.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEnemiescrushes

And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;

Verse ConceptsSoldiersOvertaking

and the Philistines pursue after Saul, and after his sons, and the Philistines smite Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-Shua, sons of Saul.

and Asa and the people who are with him pursue them even to Gerar, and there fall of the Cushim, for they have no preserving, because they have been broken before Jehovah, and before His camp; and they bear away very much spoil,

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of WarRecovery

A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

Verse ConceptsChaffFoliageharassment

Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

Verse ConceptsHuntingPersecution

But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

Verse ConceptsRoots

I pursue mine enemies, and overtake them, And turn back not till they are consumed.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleOvertaking

Saying, 'God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentPursuing PeopleGod Abandoning IndividualsNo One Can Save

So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

Verse ConceptsStormsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

And the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after them, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and they take him, and bring him up unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he speaketh with him -- judgments.

Verse ConceptsOvertaking

And the forces of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his forces have been scattered from him,

Verse ConceptsOvertaking

Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleNot SparingAnger And Forgivenesspity

Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePursuingPursuing PeopleHating EvilKilling Will Happen

And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

Verse ConceptsWaterWeather, God's Sovereignty OverHoly Spirit, Types OfThe SunSetting OutSure KnowledgeLatenessSunRenewalAcknowledgedspringtimestriving

And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

Verse ConceptsDarkness, And God's JudgmentOvertaken By DarknessEnd Of ActionsFloodsBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

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

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

Verse ConceptsGrowthRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanSpiritual VitalityPerfectionHuman ImperfectionPursuing GoodPeople Made PerfectTaking PossessionRacestrivingprocess

Bible Theasaurus

Endeavor (9 instances)
Engage (51 instances)
Follow (353 instances)
Prosecute (9 instances)
Pursue (143 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּבק 
Dabaq 
Usage: 54

דּלק 
Dalaq 
Usage: 9

רדף 
Radaph 
Usage: 143

שׂיג 
Siyg 
Usage: 1