diōgmos · persecution

What it means

diōgmos (διωγμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “persecution”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. When believers are attacked for their faith.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• persecution ×5
• persecutions ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Timothy×2

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived; and when affliction or persecution comes on account of the word, at once he falls away.

• Mark 4:17

  and they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived; then, when affliction or persecution comes on account of the word, at once they fall away.

• Mark 10:30

  who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

• Acts 8:1

  And Saul was approving of his killing. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the assembly that was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

• Acts 13:50

  But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their region.

• Romans 8:35

  Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions and distresses, for the sake of the Messiah; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:4

  so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra, what persecutions I endured; and the Lord rescued me from all of them.

And 1 more times.