רָדַף râdaph — to run after (usually with hostile intent
Translated in the KJV as chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, persecute(-ion, -or), pursue.
a primitive root; to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by).
râdaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 36Wayyiqtol 34Imperfect (yiqtol) 24Perfect (qatal) 10Infinitive construct 10Imperative 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 7Cohortative 2
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Pi'el
Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Niph'al
Participle (passive) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
Pu'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›