διώκτης
diṓktēs · G1376 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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persecutor
(Derivative of διώκω ‘to persecute,’) A person who engages in persecuting others
Examples1 Timothy 1:13 even though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- רָדַף râdaph · H7291 · to follow, to pursue, to chase after
- The standard Hebrew verbal root for 'to pursue/persecute,' corresponding semantically to the Greek διώκω family; while διώκτης is the agent noun 'persecutor,' רָדַף in participial form (רֹדֵף) functions as the Hebrew equivalent for 'one who pursues/persecutes.'
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Persecutor39.46
- Used of one who inflicts hostile treatment on others for their faith, as of Paul's own description of himself as formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent aggressor in 1 Timothy 1:13.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon διωκτου, ὁ (διώκω), a persecutor: 1 Tim 1:13. Not found in secular writings.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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