Strong's Greek · G1375

G1375 diōgmós

διωγμός

dee-ogue-mos'

persecution

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diōgmós appears 10 times in Scripture, in Matthew, Mark, Acts, Romans, 2 Corinthians, 2 Thessalonians and 2 Timothy. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

persecution

In the King James Version

persecution

Derivation

from G1377 (διώκω);

Appears 10 times in Scripture

2 Thessalonians 1:4

“That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.”

Acts 8:1

“And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.”

2 Timothy 3:11

“my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.”

Mark 10:30

“will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

Romans 8:35

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”

Mark 4:17

“But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.”

Matthew 13:21

“But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.”

2 Corinthians 12:10

“That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Acts 13:50

“The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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