Persecute, Persecution
Persecute, Persecution
has the meanings (a) “to put to flight, drive away,” (b) “to pursue,” whence the meaning “to persecute,” Mat 5:10-12, Mat 5:44; Mat 10:23; Mat 23:34; Luk 11:49 (No. 2 in some mss.); Luk 21:12; Joh 5:16; Joh 15:20 (twice); Act 7:52; Act 9:4-5, and similar passages; Rom 12:14; 1Co 4:12; 1Co 15:9; 2Co 4:9, AV (RV, “pursued”); Gal 1:13, Gal 1:23; Gal 4:29; Gal 5:11, RV, “am … persecuted” (AV, “suffer persecution”); so Gal 6:12; Phi 3:6; 2Ti 3:12, “shall suffer persecution;” Rev 12:13. See FOLLOW, PURSUE.
ek, “out” and No. 1, is used in 1Th 2:15, AV, “persecuted” (RV, “drove out”). See also No. 1. See DRIVE, No. 2.
akin to A, No. 1, occurs in Mat 13:21; Mar 4:17; Mar 10:30; Act 8:1; Act 13:50; Rom 8:35; 2Co 12:10; 2Th 1:4; 2Ti 3:11, twice (for 2Ti 3:12, see A, No. 1). In the Sept., Pro 11:19; Lam 3:19.
Note: In Act 11:19, AV, thlipsis, “tribulation” (RV), is translated “persecution.”