noun · masculine
diōgmos
Strong’sG1375
persecution
stem diōgm-10 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books6 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
διωγμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< διώκω), [in LXX: Pr 11:19 (רדף pi.), La 3:19 (מָרוּד), II Mac 12:23 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1375 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddee-ogue-mos'
persecution
Fromfrom G1377;
King Jamespersecution.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
the chase, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 pursuit, Refs 1st c.BC+
II persecution, harassing, in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+; also in later Prose, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | diōgmos2×διωγμὸς | diōgmois |
| object accusative | diōgmon1×διωγμὸν | diōgmoin1×διωγμοὺς |
| direct address vocative | diōgmor | diōgmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | diōgmou2×διωγμοῦ | diōgmoiu1×διωγμῶν |
| to, for dative | diōgmo | diōgmoi3×διωγμοῖς |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
diōgmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
diōgmos“persecution”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 8:1… Geneta de en ekeina ta hēmera diōgmos megos epi tan ekklēsan tan en …… death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in …
Romans 8:35… tou Christou? thlipsias ē stenochōrias ē diōgmos ē limos ē gumnotas ē kindunos …… Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger …
diōgmon“persecution”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 13:50… toin prōtoin tau polau kai epegerala diōgmon epi ton Paulon kai Barnabon, kai …… of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove …
diōgmou“persecution”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 13:21… proskairos atō, generantau de thlipsiau ē diōgmou dia ton logon euthuos skandalizotō.… only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he …
Mark 4:17… proskairois alō, eita generantau thlipsiau ē diōgmou dia ton logon euthuos skandalizolō.… only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they …
diōgmoin“persecutions”objectaccusative plural1×
2 Timothy 3:11… Antiocheia, en Ikonie, en Lustrei, hoioin diōgmoin hupoferama; kai ek panteiu min rueta …… in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued …
diōgmoiu“persecutions”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Mark 10:30… mētērain kai tekneim kai agroin meta diōgmoiu, kai en to aiōno to erchorōnto …… and children and fields, along with persecutions — and in the age to come …
diōgmoi“persecutions”to, fordative plural3×
2 Corinthians 12:10… astheniai, en hubriai, en anankai, en diōgmoi kai stenochōriai, huper Christou; hotan gar …… weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am …
2 Thessalonians 1:4“persecutions”… vu kai pistiau en pantoi toi diōgmoi vu kai tai thlipsiai hai anechovō,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.
2 Timothy 3:11toi diōgmoi, tei pathēmei, hoieim mi geneta en …my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon …