Run

King James Dictionary

RUN, pret. ran or run pp. run.

1. To move or pass in almost any manner, as on the feet or on wheels. Men and other animals run on their feet carriages run on wheels, and wheels run on their axle-trees. 2. To move or pass on the feet with celerity or rapidity, by leaps or long quick steps as, men and quadrupeds run when in haste. 3. To use the legs in moving to step as, children run alone or run about. 4. To move in a hurry.

The priest and people run about.

5. To proceed along the surface to extend to spread as, the fire runs over a field or forest.

The fire ran along upon the ground.  Exodus 9 .

6. To rush with violence as, a ship runs against a rock or one ship runs against another. 7. To move or pass on the water to sail as, ships run regularly between New York and Liverpool. Before a storm, run into a harbor, or under the lee of the land. The ship has run ten knots an hour. 8. To contend in a race as, men or horses run for a prize. 9. To flee for escape. When General Wolfe was dying, an officer standing by him exclaimed, see how they run. Who run? said the dying hero. The enemy, said the officer. Then I die happy, said the general. 10. To depart privately to steal away.

My conscience will serve me to run from this Jew, my master.

11. To flow in any manner, slowly or rapidly to move or pass as a fluid. Rivers run to the ocean or to lakes. The Connecticut runs on sand, and its water is remarkably pure. The tide runs two or three miles an hour. Tears run down the cheeks. 12. To emit to let flow.

I command that the conduit run nothing but claret.

Rivers run potable gold.

But this form of expression is elliptical, with being omitted "rivers run with potable gold."

13. To be liquid or fluid.

As wax dissolves, as ice begin to run -

14. To be fusible to melt.

Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.

15. To fuse to melt.

Your iron must not burn in the fire, that is, run or melt, for then it will be brittle.

16. To turn as, a wheel runs on an axis or on a pivot. 17. To pass to proceed as, to run through a course of business to run through life to run in a circle or a line to run through all degrees of promotion. 18. To flow, as words, language or periods. The lines run smoothly. 19. To pass, as time.

As fast as our time runs, we should be glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.

20. To have a legal course to be attached to to have legal effect.

Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.

21. To have a course or direction.

Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.

Little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason.

22. To pass in thought, speech or practice as, to run through a series of arguments to run from one topic to another.

Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.

23. To be mentioned cursorily or in few words.

The whole runs on short, like articles in an account.

24. To have a continued tenor or course. The conversation ran on the affairs of the Greeks.

The king's ordinary style runneth, "our sovereign lord the king."

25. To be in motion to speak incessantly. Her tongue runs continually. 26. To be busied to dwell.

When we desire any thing, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

27. To be popularly known.

Men gave then their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.

28. To be received to have reception, success or continuance. The pamphlet runs well among a certain class of people. 29. To proceed in succession.

She saw with joy the line immortal run, each sire impress'd and glaring in his son.

30. To pass from one state or condition to another as, to run into confusion or error to run distracted. 31. To proceed in a train of conduct.

You should run a certain course.

32. To be in force.

The owner hath incurred the forfeiture of eight years profits of his lands, before he cometh to the knowledge of the process that runneth against him.

33. To be generally received.

He was not ignorant what report run of himself.

34. To be carried to extend to rise as, debates run high.

In popish countries, the power of the clergy runs higher.

35. To have a track or course.

Searching the ulcer with my probe, the sinus run up above the orifice.

36. To extend to lie in continued length. Veins of silver run in different directions. 37. To have a certain direction. The line runs east and west. 38. To pass in an orbit of any figure. The planets run their periodical courses. The comets do not run lawless through the regions of space. 39. To tend in growth or progress. Pride is apt to run into a contempt of others. 40. To grow exuberantly. Young persons of 10 or 12 years old, soon run up to men and women.

If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves, treading down the leaves will help their rooting.

41. To discharge pus or other matter as, an ulcer runs. 42. To reach to extend to the remembrance of as time out of mind, the memory of which runneth not to the contrary. 43. To continue in time, before it becomes due and payable as, a note runs thirty days a note of six months has ninety days to run. 44. To continue in effect, force or operation.

The statute may be prevented from running - by the act of the creditor.

45. To press with numerous demands of payment as, to run upon a bank. 46. To pass or fall into fault, vice or misfortune as, to run into vice to run into evil practices to run into debt to run into mistakes. 47. To fall or pass by gradual changes to make a transition as, colors run one into another. 48. To have a general tendency.

Temperate climates run into moderate governments.

49. To proceed as on a ground or principle. Obs. 50. To pass or proceed in conduct or management.

Tarquin, running into all the methods of tyranny, after a cruel reign was expelled.

51. To creep to move by creeping or crawling as, serpents run on the ground. 52. To slide as, a sled or sleigh runs on the snow. 53. To dart to shoot as a meteor in the sky. 54. To fly to move in the air as, the clouds run from N.E. to S.W. 55. In Scripture, to pursue or practice the duties of religion.

Ye did run well who did hinder you?  Galatians 5 .

56. In elections, to have interest or favor to be supported by votes. The candidate will not run, or he will run well. 1. To run after, to pursue or follow. 2. To search for to endeavor to find or obtain as, to run after similes.

To run at, to attack with the horns, as a bull.

To run away, to flee to escape.

1. To run away with, to hurry without deliberation. 2. To convey away or to assist in escape or elopement.

To run in, to enter to step in.

To run into, to enter as, to run into danger.

To run in trust, to run in debt to get credit. Not in use.

1. To run in with, to close to comply to agree with. Unusual. 2. To make towards to near to sail close to as, to run in with the land a seaman's phrase.

To run down a coast, to sail along it.

1. To run on, to be continued. Their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. 2. To talk incessantly. 3. To continue a course. 4. To press with jokes or ridicule to abuse with sarcasms to bear hard on.

To run over, to overflow as, a cup runs over or the liquor runs over.

1. To run out, to come to an end to expire as, a lease runs out at Michaelmas. 2. To spread exuberantly as, insectile animals run out into legs. 3. To expatiate as, to run out into beautiful digressions. He runs out in praise of Milton. 4. To be wasted or exhausted as, an estate managed without economy, will soon run out. 5. To become poor by extravagance.

And had her stock been less, no doubt she must have long ago run out.

To run up, to rise to swell to amount. Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.

RUN,

1. To drive or push in a general sense. Hence to run a sword through the body, is to stab or pierce it. 2. To drive to force.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or others' secrets.

Others accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.

3. To cause to be driven.

They ran the ship aground.  Acts 27 .

4. To melt to fuse.

The purest gold must be run and washed.

5. To incur to encounter to run the risk or hazard of losing one's property. To run the danger, is a phrase not now in use. 6. To venture to hazard.

He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.

7. To smuggle to import or export without paying the duties required by law as, to run goods. 8. To pursue in thought to carry in contemplation as, to run the world back to its first original.

I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum saliens.

9. To push to thrust as, to run the hand into the pocket or the bosom to run a nail into the foot. 10. To ascertain and mark by metes and bounds as, to run a line between towns or states. 11. To cause to ply to maintain in running or passing as, to run a stage coach from London to Bristol to run a line of packets from New Haven to New York. 12. To cause to pass as, to run a rope through a block. 13. To found to shape, form or make in a mold to cast as, to run buttons or balls. 1. To run down, in hunting, to chase to weariness as, to run down a stag. 2. In navigation, to run down a vessel, is to run against her, end on, and sink her. 3. To crush to overthrow to overbear.

Religion is run down by the license of these times.

1. To run hard, to press with jokes, sarcasm or ridicule. 2. To urge or press importunately. 1. To run over, to recount in a cursory manner to narrate hastily as, to run over the particulars of a story. 2. To consider cursorily. 3. To pass the eye over hastily. 1. To run out, to thrust or push out to extend. 2. To waste to exhaust as, to run out an estate.

To run through, to expend to waste as, to run through an estate.

1. To run up, to increase to enlarge by additions. A man who takes goods on credit, is apt to run up his account to a large sum before he is aware of it. 2. To thrust up, as any thing long and slender.

RUN, n.

1. The act of running. 2. Course motion as the run of humor. 3. Flow as a run of verses to please the ear. 4. Course process continued series as the run of events. 5. Way will uncontrolled course.

Our family must have their run.

6. General reception continued success.

It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run or long continuance, if not diversified with humor.

7. Modish or popular clamor as a violent run against university education. 8. A general or uncommon pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes. 9. The aftmost part of a ship's bottom. 10. The distance sailed by a ship as, we had a good run. 11. A voyage also, an agreement among sailors to work a passage from one place to another. 12. A pair of mill-stones. A mill has two, four or six runs of stones. 13. Prevalence as, a disease, opinion or fashion has its run. 14. In the middle and southern states of America, a small stream a brook.

In the long run, at the long run, not so generally used, signifies the whole process or course of things taken together in the final result in the conclusion or end.

The run of mankind, the generality of people.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.

(2): ( a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.

(3): ( a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.

(4): ( a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; - said of vessels.

(5): ( a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.

(6): ( a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.

(7): ( a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; - so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.

(8): ( v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.

(9): ( v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

(10): ( v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.

(11): ( v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

(12): ( v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.

(13): ( a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; - with on.

(14): ( v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; - said of contraband or dutiable goods.

(15): ( v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.

(16): ( v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.

(17): ( v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.

(18): ( v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

(19): ( v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

(20): ( v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.

(21): ( v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.

(22): ( v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

(23): ( v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

(24): ( v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; - said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.

(25): ( n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.

(26): ( a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

(27): ( a.) To creep, as serpents.

(28): ( a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - with on.

(29): ( n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.

(30): ( n.) Continued repetition on the stage; - said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.

(31): ( n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.

(32): ( n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.

(33): ( n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.

(34): ( n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.

(35): ( n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.

(36): ( n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.

(37): ( n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.

(38): ( n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.

(39): ( n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

(40): ( n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; - said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.

(41): ( n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.

(42): ( n.) A pair or set of millstones.

(43): ( a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.

(44): ( a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.

(45): ( a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.

(46): ( a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.

(47): ( a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; - often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.

(48): ( a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.

(49): ( a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.

(50): ( a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.

(51): ( a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.

(52): ( a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; - said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.

(53): ( p. p.) of Run

(54): of Run

(55): ( a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.

(56): ( a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

(57): ( a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.

(58): ( a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.

(59): ( n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.

(60): ( a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.

(61): ( a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.

(62): ( a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

(63): ( a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.

(64): ( a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.

(65): ( a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.

(66): ( a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.

(67): ( a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.

(68): ( n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.

(69): ( v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.

(70): ( a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

(71): ( a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.

(72): ( n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.

(73): ( n.) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running.

(74): ( n.) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.

(75): ( n.) A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.

(76): ( v. t.) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words

A. Verb.

Rûts ( רוּץ , Strong'S #7323), “to hasten, run.” This verb also appears in Ethiopic, Aramaic (where it is spelled rehats ), and Akkadian (where it means “hasten to one’s aid”). It appears about 80 times in the Bible and in all periods of the language.

In some contexts rûts signifies moving very quickly or “hastening” rather than running. This appears to be the emphasis in its first occurrence, where we are told that “when [Abraham] saw them [the three men], he ran to meet them from the tent door …” (Gen. 18:2). Abraham did not run to meet the three men but instead moved very quickly to meet them. So, also, Abraham probably did not run but “hastened” to his herd to choose the animal for the meal (cf. Gen. 18:7). This meaning is confirmed by Isa. 59:7, where the verb is in synonymous parallelism with mahar (“to hasten”): “Their [the wicked’s] feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood.…” The sense “hasten” or “move quickly” also appears in Gen. 41:14, where we are told that “Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon.…” It appears again in the sense “quickly” in Ps. 68:31: “… Let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God” (RSV).

Usually this word means “to run.” This significance is quite clear in Josh. 8:19, where it is reported that the Israelites in ambush (against Ai) “arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he [Joshua] had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it.…” This is a military picture. It describes the height of battle when a troop rushes/runs headlong into the enemy or their camp. Samuel told Israel that God would give them a king after their own hearts (one that met their standards) but that he would make their sons “run” before his chariots, or “run” headlong into battle (1 Sam. 8:11). It was not having a king that was evil, for God had provided for a king in the Mosaic law (cf. Deut. 17:14ff.). The people sinned because they wanted a king who would be like the kings over other peoples. He would be primarily a military leader. Therefore, God responded that He would give them the kind of king they wanted but that their battles would be won at the cost of their sons’ lives. David, the man after God’s own heart (the man of God’s choosing), was an imperfect king, but when he repented and obeyed God, battles were won without the loss of Israelite lives. This military sense of charging into battle appears metaphorically, describing the lifestyle of the wicked—they “rush” headlong at God (Job 15:26). This emphasis also explains the rather difficult passage 2 Sam. 22:30: “For by thee I have run through a troop … ,” which means to charge at the enemy (cf. NASB, “margin”).

Rûts is also med of “running away from” something or someone. In the battle against Midian when Gideon and his band routed the unsuspecting enemy, “all the host [Midianites] ran, and cried, and fled” (Judg. 7:21). But as with the previous emphasis, so this nuance of “to run away from” may be used in non-military contexts. In 1 Sam. 20:36 the verb signifies running away from someone in search of something, in the sense of not fleeing but pursuing. Jonathan told his aide: “Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot.”

Rûts can signify “running” into somewhere not only in a hostile sense but in order to be united with or hidden by it. For example, the sage confesses that “the name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe” (Prov. 18:10). The goal of “running” may be unspecified while the direction or path is emphasized. So used, rûts means to pursue a particular course of action: “I will run the way of thy commandments …” (Ps. 119:32).

The word is used in several technical senses. Kings and pretenders to the throne demonstrate their exalted position by having runners precede their chariots (2 Sam. 15:1). Perhaps this was in direct response to Samuel’s description in 1 Sam. 8:11. Runners also served as official messengers; so Ahimaaz son of Zadok said: “Let me now run, and bear the king [David] tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies [Absalom]” (2 Sam. 18:19).

There are a few additional special nuances of rûts. —In Song of Sol. 1:4 the word has something to do with love-making, so the translation “let us run together” (NASB) is probably misleading. Perhaps one might translate: “Draw me after you and let us hasten [to make love]; the king has brought me into his bed chambers.” In Hag. 1:9 the word means “to busy oneself”: “Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.” Finally, Hab. 2:2 uses this verb to mean “to read quickly,” or fluently: “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

B. Noun.

Meruts means “running; course.” This noun, which occurs only 4 times in biblical Hebrew, represents both the mode of running (2 Sam. 18:27) and the course one runs (Jer. 23:10).