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STRONGS NUMBER G1559

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Word Summary
ekdiōkō: to pursue out, expel or persecute
Original Word: ἐκδιώκω
Transliteration: ekdiōkō
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-dee-o'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to pursue out, expel or persecute
Meaning: to pursue out, expel or persecute
Strong's Concordance
persecute.

From ek and dioko; to pursue out, i.e. Expel or persecute implacably -- persecute.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK dioko

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1559: ἐκδιώκω

ἐκδιώκω: future ἐκδιώξω; 1 aorist ἐξεδιωξα;

1. to drive out, banish: τινα, Luke 11:49 (here WH Tr marginal reading διώξουσιν; some refer this to 2); (Thucydides 1, 24; Lucian, Tim. 10; the Sept. 1 Chronicles 8:13; Joel 2:20, etc.).

2. to pursue equivalent to to persecute, oppress with calamities: τινα, 1 Thessalonians 2:15 (some refer this to 1); (Psalm 118:157 (); Sir. 30:19; Demosthenes, 883, 27).



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