παραιτέομαιparaitéomai
GreekG386811 occurrences (KJV)
to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
KJV renders it: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject
Where it appears(showing the first 9 of 11)
- Luke 14:18They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’
- Luke 14:19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
- Acts 25:11For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
- 1 Tim 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
- 1 Tim 5:11But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
- 2 Tim 2:23But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- Titus 3:10Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
- Heb 12:19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
- Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.