5143 trecho {trekh'-o}
apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho, cf 2359),
which uses dremo {drem'-o} (the base of 1408) as alternate in
certain tenses; TDNT - 8:226,1189; v
AV - run 19, have course 1; 20
1) to run
1a) of persons in haste
1b) of those who run in a race course
2) metaph.
2a) of doctrine rapidly propagated
2b) by a metaphor taken from runners in a race, to exert one's
self, strive hard
2c) to spend one's strength in performing or attaining something
2d) word occurs in Greek writings denoting to incur extreme peril,
which it requires the exertion of all one's effort to overcome