Pursuing
שִׂיגStrong’s H7873sig
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sig is the Hebrew word usually translated “going away”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.”
Meaning
- A moving away, dross
How it's translated
- a going away 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיג sig · pursuing
a moving away, dross
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pursuing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PURSU'ING, participle present
tense Following; chasing; hastening after to overtake; prosecuting; proceeding in; continuing.
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.