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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Persecute

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

25exact KJV occurrences 16Old Testament 9New Testament 8books containing the word 4mapped Strong's IDs 25occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Romans 12:14

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where persecute appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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GreekG1377
διώκω

diṓkō · dee-o'-ko

8 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences

compare the base of G1169 and G1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute

Strong's KJV usage: :--ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute(-ion), press forward.

Strong's first: Matthew 5:11Strong's last: Romans 12:14

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GreekG1559
ἐκδιώκω

ekdiṓkō · ek-dee-o'-ko

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to pursue out, i.e. expel or persecute implacably

Strong's KJV usage: :--persecute.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 11:49Strong's last: Luke 11:49

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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25 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Job 19:22
H7291

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:28
H7291

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Psalms 7:1
H7291

<<Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.>> O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Psalms 7:5
H7291

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Psalms 10:2
H1814

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 31:15
H7291

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Psalms 35:3
H7291

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Psalms 35:6
H7291

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalms 69:26
H7291

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Psalms 71:11
H7291

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Psalms 83:15
H7291

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Psalms 119:84
H7291

How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Psalms 119:86
H7291

All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

Jeremiah 17:18
H7291

Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 29:18
H7291

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Matthew 5:11
G1377

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:44
G1377

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 10:23
G1377

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

Matthew 23:34
G1377

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Luke 11:49
G1559

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

Luke 21:12
G1377

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

John 5:16
G1377

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

John 15:20
G1377

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Romans 12:14
G1377

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

persecute

PER'SECUTE, verb transitive [Latin persequor; per and sequor, to pursue. See Seek and Essay.]

1. In a general sense, to pursue in a manner to injure, vex or afflict; to harass with unjust punishment or penalties for supposed offenses; to inflict pain from hatred or malignity.

2. Appropriately, to afflict, harass, or destroy for adherence to a particular creed or system of religious principles, or to a mode of worship. Thus Nero persecuted the Christians by crucifying some, burning others, and condemning others to be worried by dogs. See Acts 22:4.

3. To harass with solicitations or importunity.

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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