# G3868 παραιτέομαι

παραιτέομαι (paraitéomai), Strong’s G3868: to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun KJV: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject. Occurs 18 times.

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*paraitéomai* — to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun

KJV: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject

Built from [παρά pará](https://besorah.bible/word/G3844) (near) + [αἰτέω aitéō](https://besorah.bible/word/G154) (to ask)

Occurs 18 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 14:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=19) — “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’
- [Acts 25:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/25?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/4?v=7) — But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.
- [1 Timothy 5:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/5?v=11) — But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry,
- [2 Timothy 2:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/2?v=23) — But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
- [Titus 3:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/3?v=10) — Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,
- [Hebrews 12:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/2?v=31) — but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him…