רָדַף
ra.daph
1. to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after
a. (Qal)
1. to pursue, put to flight, chase, dog, attend closely upon
2. to persecute, harass (fig)
3. to follow after, aim to secure (fig)
4. to run after (a bribe) (fig)
b. (Niphal)
1. to be pursued
2. one pursued (participle)
c. (Piel) to pursue ardently, aim eagerly to secure, pursue
d. (Pual) to be pursued, be chased away
e. (Hiphil) to pursue, chase
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Concordance 135 verses
- Psalms 143:3 רָ֘דַ֤ף
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Proverbs 11:19 וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
- Proverbs 12:11 וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
- Proverbs 13:21 תְּרַדֵּ֣ף
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.
- Proverbs 15:9 וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף
The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.
- Proverbs 19:7 מְרַדֵּ֖ף
All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Proverbs 21:21 רֹ֭דֵף
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
- Proverbs 28:1 רֹדֵ֣ף
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Proverbs 28:19 וּמְרַדֵּ֥ף
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Ecclesiastes 3:15 נִרְדָּֽף׃
What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.
- Isaiah 1:23 וְרֹדֵ֖ף
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Isaiah 5:11 יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- Isaiah 17:13 וְרֻדַּ֗ף
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 30:16 רֹדְפֵיכֶֽם׃
“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
- Isaiah 41:3 יִרְדְּפֵ֖ם
He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.
- Isaiah 51:1 רֹ֥דְפֵי
“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.
- Jeremiah 15:15 מֵרֹ֣דְפַ֔י
You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
- Jeremiah 17:18 רֹדְפַי֙
Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
- Jeremiah 20:11 רֹדְפַ֥י
But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 29:18 וְרָֽדַפְתִּי֙
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
- Jeremiah 39:5 וַיִּרְדְּפ֨וּ
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
- Jeremiah 52:8 וַיִּרְדְּפ֤וּ
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
- Lamentations 1:3 רֹדְפֶ֥יהָ
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
- Lamentations 1:6 רוֹדֵֽף׃ס
All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
- Lamentations 3:43 וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
- Lamentations 3:66 תִּרְדֹּ֤ף
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
- Lamentations 4:19 רֹדְפֵ֔ינוּ
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 5:5 נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ
We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
- Ezekiel 35:6 יִרְדֲּפֶ֑ךָיִרְדֲּפֶֽךָ׃
therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
- Hosea 2:7 וְרִדְּפָ֤ה
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
- Hosea 6:3 נִרְדְּפָ֗ה
So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- Hosea 8:3 יִרְדְּֽפוֹ׃
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
- Hosea 12:1 וְרֹדֵ֣ף
Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Amos 1:11 רָדְפ֨וֹ
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
- Nahum 1:8 יְרַדֶּף־
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.