Strong’s G3868
παραιτέομαι
I beg off, make excuse, deprecate, refuse, reject, decline, shun, avoid.
Occurrences
- Mark 15:6Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
- Luke 14:18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have…
- Luke 14:19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
- Acts 25:11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man…
- 1 Timothy 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
- 1 Timothy 5:11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
- 2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
- Titus 3:10A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
- Hebrews 12:19And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
- Hebrews 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him…