{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3868",
  "lemma": "παραιτέομαι",
  "transliteration": "paraitéomai",
  "definition": "to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun",
  "kjv": "avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject",
  "occurrences": 18,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G3844",
      "lemma": "παρά",
      "transliteration": "pará",
      "meaning": "near",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G3844"
    },
    {
      "id": "G154",
      "lemma": "αἰτέω",
      "transliteration": "aitéō",
      "meaning": "to ask",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G154"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Luke 14:18",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 14:19",
      "text": "“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 25:11",
      "text": "For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/25?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Timothy 4:7",
      "text": "But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/4?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Timothy 5:11",
      "text": "But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/5?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Timothy 2:23",
      "text": "But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/2?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Titus 3:10",
      "text": "Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/3?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Hebrews 12:19",
      "text": "the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/12?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Hebrews 12:25",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/12?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Maccabees 2:31",
      "text": "but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/2?v=31"
    }
  ],
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}