'Ran' in the Bible
He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.
Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.
It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
A young man ran, and told Moses, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.
The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
They stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, "Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the [other] day."
He ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am; for you called me." He said, "I didn't call; lie down again." He went and lay down.
There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
He said to his boy, "Run, find now the arrows which I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen!" The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
"But come what may," he said, "I will run." He said to him, "Run!" Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."
The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.
The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." He said to him, "Go back again; for what have I done to you?"
The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.
The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.
Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.
and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"
They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
When she recognized Peter's voice, she didn't open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.