Leviticus 26:17
And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
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Pursueth
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Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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רָדַף
râdaph · raw-daf'
7 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).
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Strong's first: Leviticus 26:17Strong's last: Proverbs 28:1
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And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
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And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
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And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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pursue
PURSUE, verb transitive [Latin sequor; prosequor, or persequor. See Seek.]
1. To follow; to go or proceed after or in a like direction. The captain pursued the same course as former navigators have taken. A subsequent legislature pursued the course of their predecessors.
2. To take and proceed in, without following another. Captain Cook pursued a new and unexplored course. New circumstances often compel us to pursue new expedients and untried course. What course shall we pursue?
3. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare; to pursue an enemy.
4. To seek; to use measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law.
5. To prosecute; to continue. A stream proceeds from a lake and pursues a southerly course to the ocean.
He that pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own death. Proverbs 11:1.
6. To follow as an example; to imitate.
The fame of ancient matrons you pursue
7. To endeavor to attain to; to strive to reach or gain.
We happiness pursue; we fly from pain.
8. To follow with enmity; to persecute.
This verb is frequently followed by after. Genesis 35:5.
PURSUE, verb intransitive To go on; to proceed; to continue; a Gallicism.
I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chimists should not consider--
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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