Strong's Number 5143
Transliteration:
trecho
{trekh'-o}
apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho,
cf 2359), which uses dremo
{drem'-o}
Word Origin:
(the base of 1408) as alternate in certain tenses
TDNT:
8:226,1189
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
run 19, have course 1
Total: 20
Definition:
- to run
- of persons in haste
- of those who run in a race course
- metaph.
- of doctrine rapidly propagated
- by a metaphor taken from runners in a race, to exert one's self, strive hard
- to spend one's strength in performing or attaining something
- word occurs in Greek writings denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one's effort to overcome