Exodus 6:1
Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
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Acts 27:15
And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
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Exodus
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Deuteronomy
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2 Kings
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נָדַח
nâdach · naw-dakh'
3 times translated as this KJV form52 total Strong's occurrences
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: banish, bring, cast down (out), chase, compel, draw away, drive (away, out, quite), fetch a stroke, force, go away, outcast, thrust away (out), withdraw.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 24:9Strong's last: Joel 2:20
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hâdaph · haw-daf'
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to push away or down
Strong's KJV usage: cast away (out), drive, expel, thrust (away).
Strong's first: Isaiah 22:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:15
Open full H1920 profile →טְרַד
ṭᵉrad · ter-ad'
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to expel
Strong's KJV usage: drive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 4:25Strong's last: Daniel 4:32
Open full H2957 profile →φέρω
phérō · fer'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
to "bear" or carry (in a very wide application, literally and figuratively, as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be, bear, bring (forth), carry, come, + let her drive, be driven, endure, go on, lay, lead, move, reach, rushing, uphold.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 27:15Strong's last: Acts 27:15
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yârash · yaw-rash'
1 times translated as this KJV form232 total Strong's occurrences
to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin
Strong's KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, × without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joshua 23:5Strong's last: Joshua 23:5
Open full H3423 profile →נָהַג
nâhag · naw-hag'
1 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), i.e. lead, carry away; reflexively, to proceed (i.e. impel or guide oneself); also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh
Strong's KJV usage: acquaint, bring (away), carry away, drive (away), lead (away, forth), (be) guide, lead (away, forth).
Strong's first: 2 Kings 4:24Strong's last: 2 Kings 4:24
Open full H5090 profile →פּוּץ
pûwts · poots
1 times translated as this KJV form69 total Strong's occurrences
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Strong's KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 18:11Strong's last: Job 18:11
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Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
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And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
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And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
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Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
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And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
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Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
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Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
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Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
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But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
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Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them.
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Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
H5090
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
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Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
H6327
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
H1920
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
H5080
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
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For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
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For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
H1920
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
English meaning and historical usage.
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drive
DRIVE, verb transitive preterit tense Drove, [formerly drave; participle passive Driven, G.]
1. To impel or urge forward by force; to force; to move by physical force. We drive a nail into wood with a hammer; the wind or a current drive a ship on the ocean.
2. To compel or urge forward by other means than absolute physical force, or by means that compel the will; as, to drive cattle to market. A smoke drives company from the room. A man may be drive by the necessities of the times, to abandon his country.
DRIVE thy business; let not thy business drive thee.
3. To chase; to hunt.
To drive the deer with hound and horn.
4. To impel a team of horses or oxen to move forward, and to direct their course; hence, to guide or regulate the course of the carriage drawn by them. We say, to drive a team, or to drive a carriage drawn by a team.
5. To impel to greater speed.
6. To clear any place by forcing away what is in it.
To drive the country, force the swains away.
7. To force; to compel; in a general sense.
8. To hurry on inconsiderately; often with on. In this sense it is more generally intransitive.
9. To distress; to straighten; as desperate men far driven.
10. To impel by influence of passion. Anger and lust often drive men into gross crimes.
11. To urge; to press; as, to drive an argument.
12. To impel by moral influence; to compel; as, the reasoning of his opponent drove him to acknowledge his error.
13. To carry on; to prosecute; to keep in motion; as, to drive a trade; to drive business.
14. To make light by motion or agitation; as, to drive feathers.
His thrice driven bed of down.
The sense is probably to beat; but I do not recollect this application of the word in America.
To drive away, to force to remove to a distance; to expel; to dispel; to scatter.
To drive off, to compel to remove from a place; to expel; to drive to a distance.
To drive out, to expel.
DRIVE, verb intransitive
1. To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; as, a ship drives before the wind.
2. To rush and press with violence; as, a storm drives against the house.
Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
3. To pass in a carriage; as, he drove to London. This phrase is elliptical. He drove his horses or carriage to London.
4. To aim at or tend to; to urge towards a point; to make an effort to reach or obtain; as, we know the end the author is driving at.
5. To aim a blow; to strike at with force.
Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.
DRIVE, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is opposed to lead. To drive a body is to move it by applying a force behind; to lead is to cause to move by applying the force before, or forward of the body.
DRIVE, noun Passage in a carriage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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