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G3868

παραιτέομαι

paraiteomai

Verb · From παρά (G3844) and the middle voice of αἰτέω (G154)

From G3844 and the middle voice of G154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun:—avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.

Outline

  1. to ask along side, beg to have near one
    1. to obtain by entreaty
    2. to beg from, to ask for, supplicate
  2. to avert by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate
    1. to entreat that ... not
    2. to refuse, decline
    3. to shun, avoid
    4. to avert displeasure by entreaty
      1. to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse
      2. of one excusing himself for not accepting a wedding invitation to a feast

Usages

Luke 14:18

And 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 me excused.

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Luke 14:19

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

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Acts 25:11

For 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 may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.

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1 Timothy 4:7

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

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1 Timothy 5:11

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

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2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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Titus 3:10

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

Breakdown

heretick Someone that goes against what the scriptures say.

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Hebrews 12:19

And 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:

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Hebrews 12:25

See 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 that speaketh from heaven:

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