G3868 παραιτέομαι
paraitéomai — to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
KJV: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject
Built from παρά pará (near) + αἰτέω aitéō (to ask)
Occurs 18 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Luke 14:18 — They 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…
- Luke 14:19 — “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
- Acts 25:11 — For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those…
- 1 Timothy 4:7 — But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
- 1 Timothy 5:11 — But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry,
- 2 Timothy 2:23 — But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- Titus 3:10 — Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
- Hebrews 12:19 — the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken…
- Hebrews 12:25 — See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how…
- 2 Maccabees 2:31 — but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him…