Strong G5143τρέχω
to run
- Transliteration
- trechō
- Pronunciation
- trekh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
τρέχω
[in LXX chiefly for רוּץ;]
to run: Mrk.5:6, Jhn.20:2, 4, 1Co.9:24 9:26; with inf., Mat.28:8; before ἐπί, Luk.24:12 [T [WH] R, mg., om.]; εἰς, Rev.9:9; ptcp., δραμών, with indic., Mat.27:48, Mrk.15:36, Luk.15:20. Metaphorical, from runners in a race, of swiftness or of effort to attain an end: Rom.9:16, Gal.2:2 5:7, Php.2:16; τ. ἀγῶνα (Hdt., Eur., al.), Heb.12:1; ὁ λόγος τ. κυρίου (cf. Psa.147:4), ἕως τάχους δραμεῖται ὁ λ. αὐτοῦ), 2Th.3:1 (cf. εἰς-, κατα-, περι-, προ-, προσ-, συν-, ἐπι-συν-, ὑπο-τρέχω)
δράμω, obsol., to run, see: τρέχω
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for רוּץ;]
to run: Mrk.5:6, Jhn.20:2, 4, 1Co.9:24 9:26; with inf., Mat.28:8; before ἐπί, Luk.24:12 [T [WH] R, mg., om.]; εἰς, Rev.9:9; ptcp., δραμών, with indic., Mat.27:48, Mrk.15:36, Luk.15:20. Metaphorical, from runners in a race, of swiftness or of effort to attain an end: Rom.9:16, Gal.2:2 5:7, Php.2:16; τ. ἀγῶνα (Hdt., Eur., al.), Heb.12:1; ὁ λόγος τ. κυρίου (cf. Psa.147:4), ἕως τάχους δραμεῖται ὁ λ. αὐτοῦ), 2Th.3:1 (cf. εἰς-, κατα-, περι-, προ-, προσ-, συν-, ἐπι-συν-, ὑπο-τρέχω)
δράμω, obsol., to run, see: τρέχω
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5143 appears in 17 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- run14
- have2
- runneth2
- course1
First verses
- Matthew 27:48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
- Matthew 28:8And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
- Mark 5:6But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
- Mark 15:36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
- Luke 15:20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
- Luke 24:12Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
- John 20:2Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
- John 20:4So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
- Romans 9:16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
- 1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
- Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
- Galatians 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
- Philippians 2:16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
- Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
- Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
τρέχω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386, etc.:)]future θρέξομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1005 (_anapaest meter_), (μετα-) [prev. author] “Pax” 261, (περῖ) [prev. author] “Ra.” 193)]; θρέξω only in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 108)]; but ἀπο-θρέξεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 232:)]aorist 1 ἔθρεξα (see. below):—but the usual future and aorist come from the root δραμ-, i.e. δρᾰμοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 878, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.45, etc.)]; Ionic dialect δραμέομαι [LXX+6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; late δραμῶ LXX.Cant.1.4; but ὑπερ-δραμῶ {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 3 (uncertain reading))]; δράμομαι in compound ἀναδράμεται [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.575 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus):)]aorist 2 ἔδρᾰμον (see. below): perfect δεδράμηκα [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 38, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 741, (ἀνα-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.55, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.7.6, (περι-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Clitopho” 410a, (συν-) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.9:)]pluperfect ἐδεδραμήκεσαν (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92: poetry)]perfect δέδρομα (ἀνα-, ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.412, 20.357:)] —passive, perfect δεδράμημαι (ἐπι-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.1.)]—The Verb is not common in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], who has present in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.520, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386; in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.599, 602, _Ionic dialect_ Iterat. θρέξασκον (ἔθρεξα)] was also old Attic dialect, epigram cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 20, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1569 (assuming variant, ἔβρεξε Weil), (περι-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 657))]; but the common aorist was ἔδραμον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.393, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.207, +others)]—Doric dialect τράχω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, “Etymologicum Magnum” 356.10)]: future θραξοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]:—run, of men, ἰθὺς δράμε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.207, etc.; θρέξασκον ἐπισταμένοισι πόδεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.599; τρέχει Ὅρκος ἅμα.. δίκῃσιν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 219; ᾤχεο τρέχων 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 37, 110 (τράχων cf. Ahrens))]; βαδίζειν καὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 468a)]; τρέχων, opposed to βάδην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.30; τ. χερσίν, οὐ ποδωκείᾳ σκελῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 37: of horses, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.393, 520)]: the participle is frequently added to another Verb, τί οὐ τρέχων σὺ τὰς τραπέζας ἐκφέρει; why do you not run and carry out.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327b; see below 2.)]
2 of things, move quickly, τὸ δὲ [τρύπανον] τ. ἐμμενὲς αἰεί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.413; ναῦς παρὰ γῆν ἔδραμεν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 856; πόλιν.. ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1083)]; τὸ δ᾽ ἐν ποσὶ τράχον ἴτω let what is now before me go trippingly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32; ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἔδραμε.. σταγών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1121 (Lyric poetry); ἔρις δραμοῦσα τοῦ προσωτάτω)]having run its course, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 731)]; πυρετὸς.. ἥκει τρέχων has come quickly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Nicopho Comicus 12.)]
3 οἱ τρέχοντες a constellation rising with Libra, Antiochus cited in Teucrum in [Refs (Boll “Sphaera” 58.)]
II with accusative loci, run over, ῥόθια πεδία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1117 (Lyric poetry); ὁ ἵππος τ. καὶ πρανῆ καὶ ὄρεια 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 8.1:)] —in _Attic dialect_ Prose θέω seems to be more frequently in the present, and in some phrases used exclusively, e.g. θεῖν δρόμῳ, see at {θέω} (A) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.1 and compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.111, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18.)]
II.2 with accusative cognate, δραμεῖν ἀγῶνα, βῆμα, δίαυλον, δρόμον, run a course, a heat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 883, 954, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 235, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 741, etc.)]; λαμπάδας, i. e. torch-races, [Refs (“IG” 22.1028.14: frequently _metaphorically_, ἀγῶνα δρ.)] run a risk, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 489, compare “IA” 1455; ἀγῶνα θανάσιμον δραμούμενον [prev. author] “Or.” 878)]; πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας δραμέονται περὶ σφέων αὐτῶν run for their life or safety, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; κινδύνων τὸν μέγιστον τ. 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.47)]; τὸν ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς ἀγῶνα, κίνδυνον ὑπὲρ τῆς ψυχῆς τ., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.48, 4.4; ἐσχάτην τρέχοντες ταύτην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.87.3: sometimes the _accusative_ is omitted, περὶ ἑωυτοῦ τρέχων)] running for his life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.57)]; περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 9.37; φόνου πέρι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1264)]; περὶ νίκης falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.8 (ἐπὶ νίκῃ Rehdantz))]; compare θέω[Refs ((A) 1.2, δρόμος 1.2, κρέας near the end)]
II.3 παρὰ ἓν πάλαισμα ἔδραμε νικᾶν he was within one fall or bout of carrying off the victory, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33)]; compare παρά[Refs (with 111.5, τριάζω 1.)]
II.4 commit, μηδ᾽ ἑτέρας δραμεῖν ἀταξίας ἢ ἀσελγίας [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 5.1711.34 (6th c.AD).)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386, etc.:)]future θρέξομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1005 (_anapaest meter_), (μετα-) [prev. author] “Pax” 261, (περῖ) [prev. author] “Ra.” 193)]; θρέξω only in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 108)]; but ἀπο-θρέξεις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 232:)]aorist 1 ἔθρεξα (see. below):—but the usual future and aorist come from the root δραμ-, i.e. δρᾰμοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 878, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.45, etc.)]; Ionic dialect δραμέομαι [LXX+6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; late δραμῶ LXX.Cant.1.4; but ὑπερ-δραμῶ {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 3 (uncertain reading))]; δράμομαι in compound ἀναδράμεται [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.575 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus):)]aorist 2 ἔδρᾰμον (see. below): perfect δεδράμηκα [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 38, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 741, (ἀνα-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.55, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.7.6, (περι-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Clitopho” 410a, (συν-) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.9:)]pluperfect ἐδεδραμήκεσαν (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92: poetry)]perfect δέδρομα (ἀνα-, ἐπι-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.412, 20.357:)] —passive, perfect δεδράμημαι (ἐπι-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.1.)]—The Verb is not common in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], who has present in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.520, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386; in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.599, 602, _Ionic dialect_ Iterat. θρέξασκον (ἔθρεξα)] was also old Attic dialect, epigram cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 20, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1569 (assuming variant, ἔβρεξε Weil), (περι-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 657))]; but the common aorist was ἔδραμον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.393, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.207, +others)]—Doric dialect τράχω [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, “Etymologicum Magnum” 356.10)]: future θραξοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]:—run, of men, ἰθὺς δράμε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.207, etc.; θρέξασκον ἐπισταμένοισι πόδεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.599; τρέχει Ὅρκος ἅμα.. δίκῃσιν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 219; ᾤχεο τρέχων 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 37, 110 (τράχων cf. Ahrens))]; βαδίζειν καὶ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 468a)]; τρέχων, opposed to βάδην, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.30; τ. χερσίν, οὐ ποδωκείᾳ σκελῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 37: of horses, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.393, 520)]: the participle is frequently added to another Verb, τί οὐ τρέχων σὺ τὰς τραπέζας ἐκφέρει; why do you not run and carry out.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.2, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327b; see below 2.)]
2 of things, move quickly, τὸ δὲ [τρύπανον] τ. ἐμμενὲς αἰεί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.386, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.413; ναῦς παρὰ γῆν ἔδραμεν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 856; πόλιν.. ἐξ οὐρίων δραμοῦσαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1083)]; τὸ δ᾽ ἐν ποσὶ τράχον ἴτω let what is now before me go trippingly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.32; ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἔδραμε.. σταγών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1121 (Lyric poetry); ἔρις δραμοῦσα τοῦ προσωτάτω)]having run its course, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 731)]; πυρετὸς.. ἥκει τρέχων has come quickly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Nicopho Comicus 12.)]
3 οἱ τρέχοντες a constellation rising with Libra, Antiochus cited in Teucrum in [Refs (Boll “Sphaera” 58.)]
II with accusative loci, run over, ῥόθια πεδία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1117 (Lyric poetry); ὁ ἵππος τ. καὶ πρανῆ καὶ ὄρεια 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 8.1:)] —in _Attic dialect_ Prose θέω seems to be more frequently in the present, and in some phrases used exclusively, e.g. θεῖν δρόμῳ, see at {θέω} (A) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (11.1 and compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.111, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.18.)]
II.2 with accusative cognate, δραμεῖν ἀγῶνα, βῆμα, δίαυλον, δρόμον, run a course, a heat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 883, 954, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 235, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 741, etc.)]; λαμπάδας, i. e. torch-races, [Refs (“IG” 22.1028.14: frequently _metaphorically_, ἀγῶνα δρ.)] run a risk, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 489, compare “IA” 1455; ἀγῶνα θανάσιμον δραμούμενον [prev. author] “Or.” 878)]; πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας δραμέονται περὶ σφέων αὐτῶν run for their life or safety, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; κινδύνων τὸν μέγιστον τ. 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.47)]; τὸν ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς ἀγῶνα, κίνδυνον ὑπὲρ τῆς ψυχῆς τ., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.48, 4.4; ἐσχάτην τρέχοντες ταύτην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.87.3: sometimes the _accusative_ is omitted, περὶ ἑωυτοῦ τρέχων)] running for his life, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.57)]; περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 9.37; φόνου πέρι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1264)]; περὶ νίκης falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.8 (ἐπὶ νίκῃ Rehdantz))]; compare θέω[Refs ((A) 1.2, δρόμος 1.2, κρέας near the end)]
II.3 παρὰ ἓν πάλαισμα ἔδραμε νικᾶν he was within one fall or bout of carrying off the victory, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.33)]; compare παρά[Refs (with 111.5, τριάζω 1.)]
II.4 commit, μηδ᾽ ἑτέρας δραμεῖν ἀταξίας ἢ ἀσελγίας [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 5.1711.34 (6th c.AD).)]