τρέχω

τρέχω — tréchō

δράμω, to run, see τρέχω.

STRONGS NT 5143: τρέχωτρέχω; imperfect ἔτρεχον; 2 aorist ἔδραμον; from Homer down; the Sept. for רוּץ; to run;

a. properly: of persons in haste, Mar 5:6; Joh 20:2; Joh 20:4; with a telic infinitive Mat 28:8; δραμών with a finite verb, Mat 27:48; Mar 15:36; Luk 15:20; τρέχω ἐπί with an accusative of place, Luk 24:12 (T omits; L Tr brackets WH reject the verse); εἰς πόλεμον, Rev 9:9; of those who run in a race-course (ἐν σταδίῳ), 1Co 9:24; 1Co 9:26.

b. metaphorically: of doctrine rapidly propagated, 2Th 3:1 (R. V. run); by a metaphor taken from the runners in a race, to exert oneself, strive hard; to spend one's strength in performing or attaining something: Rom 9:16; Gal 5:7; εἰς κενόν, Gal 2:2 (Winers Grammar, 504 (470); Buttmann, § 148, 10); Php 2:16; τόν ἀγῶνα, Heb 12:1 (see ἀγών, 2); the same expression occurs in Greek writings, denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one's efforts to overcome, Herodotus 8, 102; Euripides, Or. 878; Alc. 489; Electr. 883; Iph. Aul. 1456; Dionysius Halicarnassus 7, 48, etc.; miserabile currunt certamen, Stat. Theb. 3,116. (Compare: εἰστρέχω, κατατρέχω, περιτρέχω, προτρέχω, προστρέχω, συντρέχω, ἐπιτρέχω συντρέχω, ὑποτρέχω.)

STRONGS NT 5143a: τρῆματρῆμα, τρήματος, τό (τιτράω, τιτρημι, ΤΡΑΩ, to bore through, pierce), a perforation, hole: βελόνης, Luk 18:25 L T Tr WH; (ῤαφίδος, Mat 19:24 WH text). (Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, others.)