Searching Strong's Numbers in the NASB

Problem: From the NASB95, when I search for every occurrence of a particular Strong's number, it gives me an accurate list of all the verses in which that number appears, but the results counter at the top is always double what it should be. For example, searching Strong's number G200 (locust), gives me 4 verses (and each of these verses only has ONE occurrence of G200), but at the top of the search window it says "8 results in 4 verses". I wonder, "Where are the other 4 results?" When I switch my view to "Aligned", it lists each of those 4 verses TWICE IN A ROW--each repeated verse highlighting the exact same word to which the Strong's number has been assigned. NASB is the only interlinear with this problem; the others report accurately as far as I can tell. To quote Seinfeld, "What is the deal with that?" :-)

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LaRosa Johnson

i'm guessing that it's somehow grabbing the Strong's # in the Bible, as well as the Strong's # in the reverse interlinear data... i noticed this the other day when doing a study

Dave Hooton

There is no obvious reason for that.

DominicM

congratulations, I think you found a bug... I can replicate it

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/67273#Comment_67273

I'll create a bug report in the wiki.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/67283#Comment_67283

Thanks Dave.

Gerard Lim

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/67283#Comment_67283

This bug is still present in Logos 4.0c SR-1. Is Logos doing anything about this?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/133240#Comment_133240

This bug is still present in Logos 4.0c SR-1. Is Logos doing anything about this?

This bug was confirmed by Bradley Grainger on Jan 5, and it was entered into their internal bug database. However they have ways of setting the priority on bugs to fix which don't necessarily include how long ago they were found. Since this is at least give you an accurate list of all the verses, and nothing is crashing, I'm guessing they've assigned it a lower priority for fixing, and they simply haven't gotten around to it yet. I personally wish that for each new beta cycle they would fix a lot more of the outstanding lower priority bugs than they've been doing, but I guess they feel it's more important to get the rest of the missing features implemented and then worry about the low priority bugs after that. And all the folks who have been waiting for those features would probably agree.

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Mike Aubrey

why do people continue to use strong's numbers?

Robert Pavich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/133409#Comment_133409

why do people continue to use strong's numbers?

I always wonder that. I usually ask people to see if they realize that it's a methodology that's not necessary in Logos. I think it's just two things..habit mixed with not realizing that Logos will do the same thing sans numbers.

Ted Hans

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/133424#Comment_133424

Robert remember this ( your post) from the beta days of Logos 4?[:D]. ( it is a joke, down memory lane during last year beta testing for
Logos 4)

Ted

Robert Pavich:

,Helllpp,Helllpp,Helllpp...George

And so the "Somsel signal" goes out in hopes that George will rescue the poor Logos user from the Evil of Strongs Number.

Robert Pavich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/133434#Comment_133434

Lol...now that's funny...

I haven't thought about that in a long time....thanks for breaking it out of the archives... [:D]

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/133409#Comment_133409

I continue to use Strong's numbers for several reasons: (1) There are more resources linked to Stron'g numbers in Logos, so getting definitions is far easier if you're starting from a Strong's number. (2) I teach new Bible students who find a number system less confusing than Hebrew or Greek characters or transliterations. (3) In some cases, searching for every occurrence of a Strong's number gives different results than searching for every occurrence of a lemma and neither search method is necessarily "more accurate" than the other... You may get 10 results from searching for a lemma and 11 from searching the Strong's number. My understanding is that Mr. Strong has grouped various forms of a particular word under one heading (or Strong's number) whereas Logos interlinear bibles have these various word forms divided up into different headings or "lemmas". Neither division is better--it just depends on what you're after. If I am interested in a particular word form I'll search the manuscript rendering. But if I want a more exhaustive search for every time the base word occurs, I'll search the lemma--or better yet, I'll search the more inclusive Strong's number. Am I wrong or misinformed in this? I've come to this conculsion from comparing the differences between search results for lemmas and their corresponding Strong's numbers.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/135515#Comment_135515

Here is an explanation that I have written previously for students who were interested:

“The Lemma Dilemma”. It is not always
accurate to search the “Lemma” behind the English word in the ESV Reverse Interlinear.
A lemma is a word in its most basic lexical form. (In English, the lemma for
‘walking’ and ‘walked’ would both be ‘walk’.) Strong’s Numbers each correspond
to a lemma/dictionary entry—therefore, all the variant forms of that word are grouped
together into one entry. (If it were in English, ‘walking’, ‘walked’ and
‘walker’ might all be under the entry for ‘walk’.) But the ESV sometimes treats
a single lemma as several different lemmas. (If in English, ‘walker’ might be designated
as a separate lemma from ‘walk’.) So searching a Strong’s number will give you
the basic word in its various forms, but searching the lemma can sometimes
leave out important occurrences that the ESV has separated into different lemmas.
(In our English example, searching the lemma for ‘walk’ would also give you
occurrences of ‘walking’ and ‘walked’, but not ‘walker’, which is treated as
its own separate lemma.) However, most of the time, searching a lemma will
produce the same exact results as searching a Strong’s Number.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/135515#Comment_135515

Of course, I realize that there are valuable resources in Logos that don't correspond to Strong's numbers, and, of course, I access those as well! But the pop-up/key-linking feature very much depends on Strong's numbers.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/135515#Comment_135515

Am I wrong or misinformed in this?

There are some 'weaknesses' of Strong's but not conclusive enough to say it should not be used, especially when I've just searched 9 words in ESV and gotten the same results with Strong's and lemmas! You can formulate a Strong's search more easily when all you need to type is <G2344> instead of somehow deriving <Lemma = lbs/el/θησαυρός> for a Bible Search.

Lemmas are not universally agreed upon so you will find that Greek texts with different morphology can give quite different results!

But I would use lexicons other than Strong's for meanings.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/135541#Comment_135541

I wasn't trying to say that Strong's lemmas are better than Logos interlinear lemmas... I realize that they are simply different and I understand the the designation of lemmas employed in the Logos interlinears may be better. But I've observed that, in general, Strong's lemmas are more inclusive, which is what I'm after when performing a search for every occurrence of a particular word. (Of course, if I want to get a broader view, I'll search for all the Strong's numbers or lemmas in that word family.)

Yes, I use other lexicons than Strong's for sure! Although, I mainly use the Enhanced Strong's Lexicon because it gives a good quick definition and it is easy to click on links to discover root words, etc. It's a good starting place to click on the TWOT links, etc. It's perfect for my students because it is neither too brief nor is it too detailed and it is similar to what the students in the "book" version of the class get.

Thanks for your thoughts Dave!

Mike Aubrey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/135516#Comment_135516

“The Lemma Dilemma”. It is not always
accurate to search the “Lemma” behind the English word in the ESV Reverse Interlinear.
A lemma is a word in its most basic lexical form. (In English, the lemma for
‘walking’ and ‘walked’ would both be ‘walk’.) Strong’s Numbers each correspond
to a lemma/dictionary entry—therefore, all the variant forms of that word are grouped
together into one entry. (If it were in English, ‘walking’, ‘walked’ and
‘walker’ might all be under the entry for ‘walk’.) But the ESV sometimes treats
a single lemma as several different lemmas. (If in English, ‘walker’ might be designated
as a separate lemma from ‘walk’.) So searching a Strong’s number will give you
the basic word in its various forms, but searching the lemma can sometimes
leave out important occurrences that the ESV has separated into different lemmas.
(In our English example, searching the lemma for ‘walk’ would also give you
occurrences of ‘walking’ and ‘walked’, but not ‘walker’, which is treated as
its own separate lemma.) However, most of the time, searching a lemma will
produce the same exact results as searching a Strong’s Number.

It would probably be more accurate to say that Strong's tends to combine multiple lemmas under a single number.

At a basic level, what you're doing is accepting the arbitrary decision of a systematic theology (Augustus Hopkins Strongs) from more than 100 years ago over the arbitrary decision of a leading Greek scholar (John Schwandt). The question isn't

Ron

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139601#Comment_139601

At a basic level, what you're doing is accepting the arbitrary decision of a systematic theology (Augustus Hopkins Strongs) from more than 100 years ago over the arbitrary decision of a leading Greek scholar (John Schwandt). The question isn't

Hi Michael, I think you forgot to finish your response. You left us with a cliffhanger [:)]

Bobby Terhune

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139759#Comment_139759

The Strong's Exhaustive Dictionary was produced by James Strong in 1890, here is an excerpt from Wikipedia.

James Strong (August 14, 1822 – August 7, 1894) was an American Methodist biblical scholar and educator, and the creator of Strong's Concordance. He was born in New York City; was Professor of Biblical Literature at Troy University (New York) in 1858-61, became Professor of Exegetical Theology at Drew Theological Seminary in 1868 and died at Round Lake, New York.

His best known work is Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, first published in 1890, of which new editions are still in print as of 2006^[update]. Adaptations (e.g. Strongest Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible: 21st Century Edition) are also now available.

For the concordance, Strong numbered every Hebrew or Greek root word which was found, for ease of reference. This numbering system (8674 Hebrew roots and 5523 Greek roots) is now used in works by many other writers and is widely available on the web[1] where it is used in conjunction with Wigram's Englishman's Concordances and Thayer's Lexicon. Some criticize the use of Strong's concordance today due to the fact that he was never fluent in either Greek or Hebrew.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139769#Comment_139769

I'm not a fan of his lexicon. Nor do I prefer numbers over Greek words. I prefer the system that provides the more inclusive lemmas, i.e., the more word-forms grouped under a lemma the better (at least for my purposes much of the time when searching for every occurrence of a word in its various forms).

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139782#Comment_139782

Don't get me wrong. If I could only search "lemmas" in Logos interlinear bibles then I'd be a happy camper! I would be even happier if their lemmas functioned better as links with pop-up capability within their interlinears (right now, only numbers do that). I'd be even happier if their approach to designating which words fell under which lemmas was a little more inclusive. If we had to stay with numbering systems, the GK numbering system might be better since it is based on the more recent and more apt scholarship of Edward Goodrick and John Kohlenberger (although their system does not drastically differ from Strong's).

Bobby Terhune

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139788#Comment_139788

Travis,

I'm just curious, with your system of doing word studies how does having a "more inclusive" grouping of different lemmas help you?

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139809#Comment_139809

Well, it depends on the purpose of the word study. If I want to
observe the various contexts in which a particular word is used in
order to gain insight into its meaning in various contexts, I may want
to see every occurrence of that base word in varying forms. For
example, if you were reading 1Co 14 and wanted to look into the Greek
behind the word "desire" (ESV) and observe the different contexts in
which that Greek word is used, you have two main search options in
Logos: (1) right click and search for every occurrence of the Greek
lemma, which the interlinear presents as ζηλόω. The search results
would reveal that there are 11 places in the ESV Reverse Interlinear
where ζηλόω is the lemma behind the English translation. Or (2) you
could right click and search for every occurrence of Strong's number
G2206. The search results would reveal that there are 12 places in the
ESV Reverse Interlinear where G2206 is the Strong's number behind the
English translation. The one extra occurrence given in the Strong's
search is found in Rev 3:19 where it is translated as "zealous" ("be
zealous and repent"). Why does the Strong's search give Rev 3:19 when
the Greek lemma search does not? Because the Greek lemma behind "zealous" in Rev 3:19 is ζηλεύω, not ζηλόω,
whereas both ζηλόω and ζηλεύω are grouped together under the same
Strong's entry; i.e., "more
inclusive". The designation of ζηλόω as a different lemma from ζηλεύω is not wrong,
but when both words are included under the same heading it is more
helpful for me if my goal is to get a broad view of how the lexeme is
used. And that's the benefit: a broad perusal of the ways in which the
basic word is used despite minor variances in its form.

This is my understanding. But I have a tendency to be convinced that I know what I'm talking about, even when I don't. I'm no expert in Hebrew or Greek or language in general. But do you think my understanding is correct if my purpose is a broad view of the ways a word is used? If not, I'd like to adjust my approach.

Mike Aubrey

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139844#Comment_139844

The designation of ζηλόω as a different lemma from ζηλεύω is not wrong,
but when both words are included under the same heading it is more
helpful for me if my goal is to get a broad view of how the lexeme is
used. And that's the benefit: a broad perusal of the ways in which the
basic word is used despite minor variances in its form.

Which lexeme? ζηλευω or ζηλοω? These are two different words with two different meanings. They're different lemmas and different lexemes (lexemes and lemmas are not the same thing).

A lemma is merely a lexicon headword. A lexeme is the abstraction of a lemma with all of its inflectional forms. ζηλευω and ζηλοω are separate lemmas and separate lexemes with completely different inflectional paradigms.

Fundamentally, it seems that what you want is an etymological analysis where all lexemes are categorized by their roots to include both inflectional forms and also derivational forms.

But Strong's isn't going to get you there either. Strongs #'s miss: ζηλοτυπία, ζῆλος, ζηλωτής (which gets two #'s).

More importantly, etymological relations can be notoriously misleading -- there have been entire books written on the topic: http://www.logos.com/products/details/2812

Likewise, there are numerous words (and phrases/idioms) that have the same or similar meaning which don't share root:

σπουδαῖος, φιλοτιμέομαι, ἐπακολουθέω, φιλοτιμέομαι, ζέω τῷ πνεύματι, εὔνοια

Lexical form is thoroughly arbitrary when it comes to actual meaning. If you want a broader picture of a word's usage, you are also going to want to know what other words a given author could have chosen to express the same thing.

Travis Arnold

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139872#Comment_139872

Which lexeme? ζηλευω or ζηλοω? These are two different words with two different meanings. They're different lemmas and different lexemes (lexemes and lemmas are not the same thing).

A lemma is merely a lexicon headword. A lexeme is the abstraction of a lemma with all of its inflectional forms. ζηλευω and ζηλοω are separate lemmas and separate lexemes with completely different inflectional paradigms.

Fundamentally, it seems that what you want is an etymological analysis where all lexemes are categorized by their roots to include both inflectional forms and also derivational forms.

Mike,

I understand what a lemma is but I guess I thought a lexeme included derrived forms. (Again, not a linguist, but I'm glad you are!) I guess you're right (if I understand what you said) in that I would like to know how to get search results that show me every occurrence of a word with its inflectional and derivational forms. It'd be easier for me to give an example in English: If I wanted to see how the word "run" is used, what I'm really interested in is finding every occurrence of "run" and "running" and "runs" and "runner", etc. I realize such a method of word study can be misleading in some ways, but I would be interested in knowing how to do a search like that. Do you see the value in such an analysis?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/139882#Comment_139882

If I wanted to see how the word "run" is used, what I'm really interested in is finding every occurrence of "run" and "running" and "runs" and "runner", etc.

not every occurrence of run is a lexical item - you need to recognize the multi-word lexical items as well. And just to give you clue of the complexity of run as an example of what one needs to be aware of its use in related literature or over time:

Run

(rn)

v. ran (r

n), run,
run·ning, runs

v.intr.

a. To move
swiftly on foot so that both feet leave the ground during each stride.

b. To move at a fast gallop. Used of a horse.

2. To retreat rapidly; flee: seized the money and ran.

a. To move
without hindrance or restraint: dogs that
always ran loose.

b. To go or
move about from place to place; roam: I am
always running about, looking for my glasses.

4. To migrate, especially to move in a shoal in
order to spawn. Used of fish.

a. To move or go quickly; hurry: run for the police; ran for help.

b. To go when in trouble or distress: He is always running to his lawyer.

c. To make a short, quick trip or visit: ran next door to borrow a cup of sugar; ran down
to the store.

a. To take part in a race or contest: ran in the marathon; athletes who run for the gold
medal.

b. To compete in a race
for elected office: ran for mayor.

c. To finish a race or contest in a specified
position: ran second.

7. To move freely, on or as if on wheels: The car ran downhill. The drawer runs on small
bearings.

8. To be in
operation: The engine is running.

9. To go back and forth especially on a regular
basis; ply: The ferry runs every hour.

10. Nautical To sail or steer before
the wind or on an indicated course: run
before a storm.

11.

a. To flow, especially in a steady stream: Fresh water runs from the spring. Turn on the
faucet and let the water run.

b.
To emit pus, mucus, or serous fluid: Pollen
makes my nose run.

c. To be
wet or covered with a liquid: The street ran
with blood. The mourners' eyes ran with tears.

12. To melt and flow: A
hot flame will make the solder run.

13.
To spread or dissolve, as dyes in fabric: Colorfast garments are not supposed to run.

14. To extend, stretch, or reach in a certain
direction or to a particular point: This road
runs to the next town.

15. To
extend, spread, or climb as a result of growing: Ivy ran up the wall.

16. To spread rapidly: disease that ran rampant.

17.

a. To be valid
in a given area: The speed limit runs only to
the town line.

b. To be
present as a valid accompaniment: Fishing
rights run with ownership of the land.

18. To unravel along a line: Her stocking ran.

19.
To continue in effect or operation: a
lease with one year to run.

20.
To pass: Days ran into weeks.

21. To tend to persist or recur: Stinginess seems to run in that family.

22.

a. To
accumulate or accrue: The interest runs from
the first of the month.

b. To
become payable.

23. To take a
particular form, order, or expression: My
reasoning runs thus. The report runs as follows.

24. To tend or incline: Their taste in art runs to the bizarre.

25. To occupy or exist in a certain range: The sizes run from small to large.

26. To be presented or performed for a
continuous period of time: The play ran for
six months.

27. To pass into a
specified condition: We ran into debt.

28. Informal To leave; depart: Sorry, I have to run.

v.tr.

a. To travel over on foot at a pace faster than
a walk: ran the entire distance.

b. To cause (an animal) to move quickly or
rapidly: We run our hunting dogs every
morning.

2. To allow to
move without restraint.

3. To do or
accomplish by or as if by running: run
errands.

4. To hunt or pursue;
chase: dogs running deer.

5. To bring to a given condition by or as if by
running: The toddlers ran me ragged.

6. To cause to move quickly: She ran her fingers along the keyboard.

a. To cause to
compete in or as if in a race: He ran two
horses in the Kentucky Derby.

b.
To present or nominate for elective office: The
party ran her for senator.

8.
To cause to move or progress freely.

9.
To cause to function; operate: run a
machine.

10. To convey or
transport: Run me into town. Run the garbage
over to the dump.

11. Football
To attempt to advance (the ball) by carrying it.

12. To submit for consideration or review: I'll run the idea by you before I write the
proposal.

13. Nautical
To cause to move on a course: We ran our boat
into a cove.

14.

a. To smuggle: run
guns.

b. To evade and pass
through: run a roadblock.

15. To pass over or through: run the rapids.

16.
To cause to flow: run water into a tub.

17. To stream with: The
fountains ran champagne.

18. Metallurgy

a. To melt, fuse, or smelt (metal).

b. To mold or cast (molten metal): run gold into ingots.

19. To cause to extend or pass: run a rope between the poles.

20. To mark or trace on a surface: run a pencil line between two points.

21. To sew with a continuous line of stitches: run a seam.

22.
To cause to unravel along a line: She
ran her stocking on a splinter.

23.

a. To cause to crash or collide: ran the car into a fence.

b. To cause to penetrate: I ran a pin into my thumb.

24. To continue to present or perform: ran the film for a month.

25. To publish in a periodical: run an advertisement.

26. To subject oneself or be subjected to: run a risk.

27.
To have as an ongoing financial obligation: run a deficit; run a tab.

28. Games

a.
To score (balls or points) consecutively in billiards: run 15 balls.

b.
To clear (the table) in pool by consecutive scores.

29. To conduct or perform: run an experiment.

30.
Computer Science To process or execute (a program or
instruction).

31. To control, manage,
or direct: ran the campaign by himself; a
bureau that runs espionage operations.

a. A pace faster than a walk.

b. A fast gallop. Used of a horse.

2. An act of running.

a. A distance covered by or as if by
running.

b. The time taken to cover
such a distance: It is a two minutes' run
from the subway.

4. A
quick trip or visit: a run into town.

a. Sports
A running race: the winner of the mile run.

b. A campaign for public office: She managed his successful senatorial run.

6. Abbr. R Baseball A
point scored by advancing around the bases and reaching home plate
safely.

7. Football A player's
attempt to carry the ball past or through the opposing team, usually
for a specified distance: a 30-yard run.

a. The
migration of fish, especially in order to spawn.

b. A group or school of fish ascending a river
in order to spawn.

9.
Unrestricted freedom or use: I had the run of
the library.

10. A stretch or
period of riding, as in a race or to the hounds.

11.

a. A track or
slope along or down which something can travel: a logging run.

b.
Sports A particular type of passage down a hill or across
country experienced by an athlete, especially a skier or bobsledder: had two very good runs before the end of the day.

12. Sports The distance a golf ball
rolls after hitting the ground.

13.

a. A scheduled or regular route.

b. The territory of a news reporter.

14.

a. A
continuous period of operation, especially of a machine or factory.

b. The production achieved during such a
period: a press run of 15,000 copies.

15.

a. A movement
or flow.

b. The duration of such a
flow.

c. The amount of such a flow.

16. A pipe or channel through which something
flows.

17. Eastern Lower Northern
U.S. See creek.

18. A fall or slide, as of sand or mud.

19. Continuous length or extent: a five-foot run of tubing.

20. Geology A vein or seam, as of ore or
rock.

21. The direction,
configuration, or lie: the run of the grain
in leather.

22.

a. A trail or way made or frequented by
animals.

b. An outdoor enclosure for
domestic animals or poultry: a dog run; a
turkey run.

23.

a. A length of torn or unraveled stitches in a
knitted fabric.

b. A blemish caused
by excessive paint flow.

24.

a. An unbroken series or sequence: a run of dry summers.

b. Games A continuous sequence of
playing cards in one suit.

c. An
unbroken sequence or period of performances or presentations, as in the
theater.

d. A successful sequence of
actions, such as well-played shots or victories in a sport.

e. Music A rapid sequence of notes; a
roulade.

f. A series of unexpected
and urgent demands, as by depositors or customers: a run on a bank.

25. A sustained state or condition: a run of good luck.

26. A trend or tendency: the run of events.

27.
The average type, group, or category: The
broad run of voters want the candidate to win.

28. Computer Science An execution of a
specific program or instruction.

29. Nautical
The immersed part of a ship's hull abaft of the middle body.

30. runs Slang Diarrhea. Often
used with the.

adj.

1. Being in a melted or molten state: run butter; run gold.

2. Completely exhausted from running.

Phrasal
Verbs:

run across

To find by chance; come upon.

run after

1. To
pursue; chase.

2. To seek the company
or attention of for purposes of courting: He
finally became tired of running after her.

run against

1.
To encounter unexpectedly; run into.

2.
To work against; oppose: found public
sentiment running against him.

run
along

To go away; leave.

run away

1. To
flee; escape.

2. To leave one's home,
especially to elope.

3. To stampede.

run down

1. To
stop because of lack of force or power: The
alarm clock finally ran down.

2.
To make tired; cause to decline in vigor.

a. To collide with and knock down: a pedestrian who was run down by a speeding
motorist.

b. Nautical
To collide with and cause to sink.

4.
To chase and capture: Detectives ran
down the suspects.

5. To trace
the source of: The police ran down all
possible leads in the case.

6.
To disparage: Don't run her down; she is very
talented.

7. To go over;
review: run down a list once more.

8. Baseball To put a runner out after
trapping him or her between two bases.

run
in

1. To insert or include as
something extra: ran in an illustration next
to the first paragraph.

2. Printing
To make a solid body of text without a paragraph or other break.

3. Slang To take into legal custody.

4. To pay a casual visit: We ran in for an hour.

run into

1. To
meet or find by chance: ran into an old
friend.

2. To encounter
(something): ran into trouble.

3. To collide with.

4.
To amount to: His net worth runs into
seven figures.

run off

1. To print, duplicate, or copy: ran off 200 copies of the report.

2. To run away; elope.

3.
To flow off; drain away.

4. To
decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff.

5.
To force or drive off (trespassers, for example).

run on

1. To
keep going; continue.

2. To talk
volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially: He is always running on about his tax problems.

3. To continue a text without a formal break.

run out

1. To
become used up; be exhausted: Our supplies
finally ran out.

2. To put out
by force; compel to leave: We ran him out of
town.

3. To become void,
especially through the passage of time or an omission: an insurance policy that had run out.

run over

1. To
collide with, knock down, and often pass over: The car ran over a child.

2. To read or review quickly: run over a speech before giving it.

3. To flow over.

4.
To go beyond a limit: The meeting ran
over by 30 minutes.

run
through

1. To pierce: The soldier was run through by a bayonet.

2. To use up quickly: She ran through all her money.

3. To rehearse quickly: Let's run through the first act again.

4. To go over the salient points or facts of: The crew ran through the preflight procedures. We
ran through the witness's testimony before presenting it in court.

run up

To make or
become greater or larger: ran up huge bills;
run up the price of the company's stock.

run with

1. To
keep company: runs with a wild crowd.

2.
To take as one's own; adopt: "[He] was
determined to run with the idea and go public before it had been
researched" (Betty Cuniberti).

Idioms:

a run for (one's) money

Strong competition.

in
the long run

In the final analysis or
outcome.

in the short run

In the immediate future.

on the run

a. In rapid retreat: guerrillas on the run after an ambush.

b. In hiding: fugitives
on the run.

2. Hurrying
busily from place to place: executives always
on the run from New York to Los Angeles.

run a temperature/fever

To have a higher than normal body temperature.

run away with

a. To make off with hurriedly.

b. To steal.

2.
To be greater or bigger than others in (a performance, for
example).

run foul/afoul
of

1. To run into; collide
with: a sloop that had run foul of the
submerged reef.

2. To come into
conflict with: a pickpocket who ran foul of
the law.

run in place

To go through the movements of running without
leaving one's original position.

run
interference

To deal with problems or
difficult matters for someone else.

run
off at the mouth

To talk excessively or
indiscreetly.

run off with

To capture or carry off: ran
off with the state championship.

run (one's) eyes over

To look at
or read in a cursory manner.

run
out of

To exhaust the supply of: ran out of fuel.

run out of gas/steam
Slang

1. To exhaust one's energy or
enthusiasm.

2. To falter or come to a
stop because of a lack of capital, support, or enthusiasm.

run out on

To
abandon: has run out on the family.

run rings around

To be markedly superior to.

run
scared Informal

To become
intimidated or frightened.

run
short

To become scanty or insufficient in
supply: Fuel oil ran short during the
winter.

run short of

To use up so that a supply becomes insufficient or
scanty: ran short of paper clips.

run to earth/ground

To pursue and successfully capture: Dogs ran the fox to earth. The police ran the
terrorists to ground.