διώκω

diwvkw diwvkw; imperfect
ejdivwkon; future
diwvxw (; ; ; ; Sap. ; a rarer form for the more common Attic
diwvxomai, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr: ; Winer's Grammar, 84 (80); (Buttmann, 53 (46); especially Veitch, under the word; Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 377)); 1 aorist
ejdivwxa; passive (present
diwvkomai); perfect participle
dediwgmeno"; 1 future
diwcqhvsomai; (from
divw, to flee); the Septuagint commonly for #d'r;;1. to make to run or flee, put to flight, drive away: (
tina)
ajpov
povlew"
eij"
povlin, , cf. Griesbach2. to run swiftly in order to catch some person or thing, to run after; absolutely (Homer, Iliad 23, 344; Sophocles El. 738, etc.;
diwvkein
drovmw/, Xenophon, an. 6, 5, 25; cf. 7, 2, 20), to press on: figuratively, of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal, (where distinguished from
katalambavnein (cf. Herodotus 9, 58; Lucian, Hermot. 77)), . to pursue (in a hostile manner):
tina, ; .3. Hence, in any way whatever to harass, trouble, molest one; to persecute, (cf. Latin persequor, German verfolgen): ,; ; ; (11:49 WH Tr marginal reading); ; ; ; f; ,f; f; ; ; ; ; ,; ; ; ; ; passive with a dative denoting the cause, to be maltreated, suffer persecution on account of something, (here L marginal reading T read
diwkontai (others,
diwvkwntai), see WH's Appendix, p. 169; on the dative see Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 6 c.; Buttmann, 186 (161)).4. without the idea of hostility, to run after, follow after: someone, .5. metaphorically, with the accusative of thing, to pursue i. e. to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to acquire: (distinguished here from
katalambavnein); ; (in both passages opposed to
feuvgein);
novmon
dikaiosuvnh", (;
tov
divkaion, ; , where distinguished from
katalambavnein);
thvn
filoxenivan, ;
tav
th'"
eijrhvnh", (here L marginal reading Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading T read
diwvkomen (for the
diwvkwmen of others), see (WH's Appendix, p. 169);
thvn
ajgavphn, ;
tov
ajgaqovn, ;
eijrhvnhn, ; (here joined with
zhtei'n
tiv); times without number in Greek writings (from Homer, Il