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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.

Job 22 verses Psalms 1111 verses Jeremiah 22 verses Lamentations 11 verses Matthew 44 verses Luke 22 verses John 22 verses Romans 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

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.

Other KJV renderings

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

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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:

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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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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