Definition

to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• chase
• put to flight
• follow (after
• on)
• hunt
• (be under) persecute(-ion
• -or)
• pursue(-r)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.