מֻרְדָּף
murdâph · H4783 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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persecution
Literally: pursuing; hence: action by which humans make a strong effort to bring harm to other humans, either physically or with words
ExamplesIsaiah 14:6 Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- נָדַח nâdach · H5080 · to be raised, to wield
- נִדָּח (passive participle of נדח 'to drive away, banish') describes someone who has been expelled or driven out, semantically overlapping with מֻרְדָּף in depicting a person forced into flight or exile through hostile action, though נִדָּח emphasizes the state of banishment while מֻרְדָּף emphasizes active pursuit.
In the other Testament 1 word
- διώκω diṓkō · G1377 · to run after, to chase after, to pursue
- διώκω is the standard Greek verb meaning 'to persecute' or 'to pursue,' regularly used in the LXX to translate the Hebrew root רדף and its derivatives. The passive participle form (διωκόμενος) corresponds semantically to the Hebrew passive participle מֻרְדָּף, both denoting 'one who is persecuted/pursued.'
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unsafe002003003022
- The word denotes one who is persecuted, a person in a dangerous, hunted condition.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4783. murdaph [מִרְדָּה] noun feminine dominion; — as accusative of congnate meaning…
[מִרְדָּה] noun feminine dominion; — as accusative of congnate meaning with verb חָשָׂ֑ךְ בְּלִי מִרְדַּת Isa 14:6, construct before clause (Ges§ 130d; so most for מֻרְדָּף ᵑ0 q. v. below רדף).
מֻרְדָּף noun [masculine] persecution (si vera lectio) (formed like
Hoph`al Participle); — Isa 14:6, but ᵑ7 Thes and most מִרְדַּת q. v.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), 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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