# διώκω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Beekes claims it is of Pre-Greek origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.ɔ̌ː.kɔː/ → /ðiˈo.ko/ → /ðiˈo.ko/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /di.ɔ̌ː.kɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /diˈo.ko/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ðiˈo.ko/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ðiˈo.ko/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ðiˈo.ko/

### Verb

δῐώκω • (dĭṓkō)
* to make to run, set in quick motion
** to pursue a person, to chase, hunt
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.199
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.223
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.602
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.8
*** to be a follower of a person, attach oneself to
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.8.6
**** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 168A
** to pursue an object, seek after
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.75
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 997
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.63
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 251A
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 480C
*** 4th century BC, Eubulus, Nannion 1.8
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 3.5.15
*** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.4.2
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 39
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Fourth Philippic 21
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.87
** to pursue an argument, to describe
*** 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 251A
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.6
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.34
* to drive or chase away
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.409
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.77
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.92.5
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 156
* to drive, impel, speed
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.332
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.182
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.162
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 403
** (seemingly intransitive) to drive, drive on, gallop, speed, run
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.344
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.424
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 91
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.2.20
** to urge, impel
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.73
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 5.44
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 871
* (law) to prosecute, bring an action against
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.82
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 583
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 59
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.5
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Neaera 69
** 390 BCE – 322 BCE, Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus 24
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Apology 21
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 7.3.6
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.104
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 368
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 22
** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 15D
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 3 13
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.136
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Conon 41
** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1534
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 2.8.20
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Diogeiton 2
** 95 CE – 165 CE, Appian, Civil Wars 4.50
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.5
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Apology 21
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 698
* to persecute
** 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 5:16
** 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 5:10

#### Derived terms

* διάκτορος (diáktoros)
* δίωξις (díōxis)
* ἐκδιώκω (ekdiṓkō)
* καταδιώκω (katadiṓkō)

### References

* “διώκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “διώκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “διώκω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* διώκω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* διώκω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* διώκω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* “διώκω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G1377 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διώκω (diṓkō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ðiˈo.ko/
* Hyphenation: δι‧ώ‧κω

### Verb

διώκω • (dióko) (past δίωξα, passive διώκομαι)
* to persecute
* to seek
* (law) to prosecute

#### Related terms

* αδίωκτος (adíoktos, “unprosecuted”)
* ακαταδίωκτος (akatadíoktos, “not possible to be prosecuted”)
* διωγμός m (diogmós, “pogrom”)
* διώκτης m (dióktis, “pursuor”)
* διωκτικός (dioktikós, “prosecuting”)
* δίωξη f (díoxi, “prosecution”) (law)
* εκδιώκω (ekdióko, “expel”) & related
* επιδιώκω (epidióko, “pursue, aim”) & related
* καταδιώκω (katadióko, “chase, pursue”) & related
* τυχοδιώκτης m (tychodióktis, “chancer”)
* τυχοδιωκτικός (tychodioktikós)
* τυχοδιωκτισμός m (tychodioktismós)
* and see: διώχνω (dióchno, “chase away”) (διώξιμο n (dióximo)

#### See also

* διώχνω (dióchno, “to chase away”)