Limitless Word
רָדַףrâdaph/raw-daf'/
HebrewH7291143 occurrences (KJV)

to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)

KJV renders it: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).

Where it appears(showing the first 135 of 143)

  • Gen 14:14When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
  • Gen 14:15He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
  • Gen 31:23He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
  • Gen 35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
  • Gen 44:4When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
  • Exod 14:4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
  • Exod 14:8Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
  • Exod 14:9The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
  • Exod 14:23The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
  • Exod 15:9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
  • Lev 26:7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
  • Lev 26:8Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
  • Lev 26:17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
  • Lev 26:36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
  • Lev 26:37They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
  • Deut 1:44The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
  • Deut 11:4and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
  • Deut 16:20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Deut 19:6Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
  • Deut 28:22Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish.
  • Deut 28:45All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.
  • Deut 30:7Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
  • Deut 32:30How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
  • Josh 2:5About the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out. Where the men went, I don’t know. Pursue them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
  • Josh 2:7The men pursued them along the way to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.
  • Josh 2:16She said to them, “Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you. Hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way.”
  • Josh 2:22They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them all along the way, but didn’t find them.
  • Josh 7:5The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
  • Josh 8:16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
  • Josh 8:17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
  • Josh 8:20When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
  • Josh 8:24When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
  • Josh 10:10Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
  • Josh 10:19but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”
  • Josh 11:8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.
  • Josh 20:5If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
  • Josh 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
  • Josh 24:6I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
  • Judg 1:6But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
  • Judg 3:28He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.
  • Judg 4:16But Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword. There was not a man left.
  • Judg 4:22Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.
  • Judg 7:23The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
  • Judg 7:25They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press; and pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
  • Judg 8:4Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
  • Judg 8:5He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
  • Judg 8:12Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.
  • Judg 9:40Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.
  • Judg 20:43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
  • 1 Sam 7:11The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
  • 1 Sam 17:52The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.
  • 1 Sam 23:25Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
  • 1 Sam 23:28So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.
  • 1 Sam 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
  • 1 Sam 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
  • 1 Sam 26:18He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
  • 1 Sam 26:20Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
  • 1 Sam 30:8David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”
  • 1 Sam 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
  • 2 Sam 2:19Asahel pursued Abner; and in going he didn’t turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.
  • 2 Sam 2:24But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. The sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
  • 2 Sam 2:28So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued Israel no more, and they fought no more.
  • 2 Sam 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
  • 2 Sam 18:16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
  • 2 Sam 20:6David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
  • 2 Sam 20:7Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 2 Sam 20:10But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 2 Sam 20:13When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.
  • 2 Sam 22:38I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
  • 2 Sam 24:13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
  • 1 Kgs 20:20They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
  • 2 Kgs 5:21So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”
  • 2 Kgs 9:27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
  • 2 Kgs 25:5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
  • 2 Chr 13:19Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
  • 2 Chr 14:13Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.
  • Neh 9:11You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
  • Job 13:25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
  • Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
  • Job 30:15Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
  • Ps 7:1A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
  • Ps 7:5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
  • Ps 18:37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
  • Ps 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
  • Ps 31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
  • Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
  • Ps 35:3Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
  • Ps 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
  • Ps 38:20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
  • Ps 69:26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
  • Ps 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
  • Ps 83:15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
  • Ps 109:16because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
  • Ps 119:84How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
  • Ps 119:86All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
  • Ps 119:150They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.
  • Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
  • Ps 119:161Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
  • Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
  • Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
  • Prov 11:19He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.
  • Prov 12:11He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
  • Prov 13:21Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
  • Prov 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
  • Prov 19:7All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
  • Prov 21:21He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
  • Prov 28:1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
  • Prov 28:19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
  • Eccl 3:15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.
  • Isa 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Isa 5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
  • Isa 17:13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
  • Isa 30:16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
  • Isa 41:3He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.
  • Isa 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
  • Jer 15:15Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
  • Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
  • Jer 20:11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
  • Jer 29:18I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;
  • Jer 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
  • Jer 52:8but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
  • Lam 1:3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
  • Lam 1:6All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion: her princes have become like deer that find no pasture, they have gone without strength before the pursuer.
  • Lam 3:43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
  • Lam 3:66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
  • Lam 4:19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
  • Lam 5:5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
  • Ezek 35:6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
  • Hos 2:7She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’
  • Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
  • Hos 8:3Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
  • Hos 12:1Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Amos 1:11Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
  • Nah 1:8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.