Persecution
מֻרְדָּףStrong’s H4783murdaph (mur-daph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Murdaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “persecution”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.”
Meaning
- Persecution
How it's translated
- persecution 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מֻרְדָּף murdaph · persecution
persecution
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “persecution” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERSECU'TION, noun
The act or practice of persecuting; the infliction of pain, punishment or death upon others unjustly, particularly for adhering to a religious creed or mode of worship, either by way of penalty or for compelling them to renounce their principles. Historians enumerate ten persecutions suffered by the Christians, beginning with that of Nero, adjective D. 31, and ending with that of Diocletian, adjective D. 303 to 313.
- The state of being persecuted.“Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest” Lamentations 5:5
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.