Lamentations 5:5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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Persecution
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2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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διωγμός
diōgmós · dee-ogue-mos'
5 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
persecution
Strong's KJV usage: :--persecution.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 13:21Strong's last: Romans 8:35
Open full G1375 profile →διώκω
diṓkō · dee-o'-ko
3 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: Galatians 5:11Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:12
Open full G1377 profile →θλῖψις
thlîpsis · thlip'-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences
pressure (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--afflicted(-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 11:19Strong's last: Acts 11:19
Open full G2347 profile →רָדַף
râdaph · raw-daf'
1 times translated as this KJV form143 total Strong's occurrences
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by)
Strong's KJV usage: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Lamentations 5:5Strong's last: Lamentations 5:5
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
G1375
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
G1375
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
G1375
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
G2347
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
G1375
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
G1375
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
G1377
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
G1377
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
G1377
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
English meaning and historical usage.
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persecution
PERSECU'TION, noun The act or practice of persecuting; the infliction of pain, punishment or death upon others unjustly, particularly for adhering to a religious creed or mode of worship, either by way of penalty or for compelling them to renounce their principles. Historians enumerate ten persecutions suffered by the Christians, beginning with that of Nero, adjective D. 31, and ending with that of Diocletian, adjective D. 303 to 313.
1. The state of being persecuted.
Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest. Lamentations 5:5.
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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