G3868 παραιτέομαι
Strong's Greek Concordance · 11 KJV occurrences
παραιτέομαι
paraitéomai
Definition
to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
KJV Renderings
avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 11)
- 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 me excused.
- 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 me excused.
- Luke 14:19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
- 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.
- 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 that speaketh from heaven: