רָדַףrâdaph
pursue, chase, persecute
Pronunciation: raw-daf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7291
Meanings
Qal
1.
a. pursue (Genesis 44:4; 2 Kings 5:21; Genesis 31:23)
b. put to flight, chase (Amos 1:11; Hosea 8:3; Deuteronomy 32:30)
c. literal (Judges 8:4; 1 Samuel 30:8; 1 Samuel 30:10)
d. chase, hunt (1 Samuel 26:20)
e. pursue (Jeremiah 20:11; Lamentations 4:19; Psalms 71:11)
f. persecute, harass (Deuteronomy 30:7; Job 19:22; Psalms 69:27)
g. pursue, dog (Ezekiel 35:6; Psalms 23:6)
2. follow after, aim to secure (Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 5:11; Hosea 12:2)
Niph`al: are pursued (Lamentations 5:5; Job 30:15; Ecclesiastes 3:15)
Pi`el: pursue ardently (Hosea 2:9; Nahum 1:8; Psalms 7:6)
Pu`al: it shall be chased away like chaff of the mountains (Isaiah 17:13)
Hiph`il: they chased him (Judges 20:43)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 143 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan.
- Genesis 14:15 There he divided his men and attacked during the night. Kedorlaomer’s army fled, but Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
- Genesis 31:23 So he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob seven days later in the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 35:5 As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob’s family.
- Genesis 44:4 But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his palace manager, “Chase after them and stop them. When you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you repaid my kindness with such evil?
- Exodus 14:4 And once again I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after you. I have planned this in order to display my glory through Pharaoh and his whole army. After this the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord!” So the Israelites camped there as they were told.
See every passage
- Genesis 14:14, 14:15, 31:23, 35:5, 44:4
- Exodus 14:4, 14:8, 14:9, 14:23, 15:9
- Leviticus 26:7, 26:8, 26:17, 26:36, 26:37
- Deuteronomy 1:44, 11:4, 16:20, 19:6, 28:22, 28:45, 30:7, 32:30
- Joshua 2:5, 2:7, 2:16, 2:22, 7:5, 8:16, 8:17, 8:20, 8:24, 10:10, 10:19, 11:8, 20:5, 23:10, 24:6
- Judges 1:6, 3:28, 4:16, 4:22, 7:23, 7:25, 8:4, 8:5, 8:12, 9:40, 20:43
- 1 Samuel 7:11, 17:52, 23:25, 23:28, 24:14, 25:29, 26:18, 26:20, 30:8, 30:10
- 2 Samuel 2:19, 2:24, 2:28, 17:1, 18:16, 20:6, 20:7, 20:10, 20:13, 22:38, 24:13
- 1 Kings 20:20
- 2 Kings 5:21, 9:27, 25:5
- 2 Chronicles 13:19, 14:13
- Nehemiah 9:11
- Job 13:25, 19:22, 19:28, 30:15
- Psalms 7:1, 7:5, 18:37, 23:6, 31:15, 34:14, 35:3, 35:6, 38:20, 69:26, 71:11, 83:15, 109:16, 119:84, 119:86, 119:150, 119:157, 119:161, 142:6, 143:3
- Proverbs 11:19, 12:11, 13:21, 15:9, 19:7, 21:21, 28:1, 28:19
- Ecclesiastes 3:15
- Isaiah 1:23, 5:11, 17:13, 30:16, 41:3, 51:1
- Jeremiah 15:15, 17:18, 20:11, 29:18, 39:5, 52:8
- Lamentations 1:3, 1:6, 3:43, 3:66, 4:19, 5:5
- Ezekiel 35:6
- Hosea 2:7, 6:3, 8:3, 12:1
- Amos 1:11
- Nahum 1:8
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).