{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3985",
  "lemma": "מָאֵן",
  "transliteration": "mâʼên",
  "definition": "to refuse",
  "kjv": "refuse, [idiom] utterly.",
  "occurrences": 41,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מָאֵן] vb. Pi. refuse"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:35",
      "text": "All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 39:8",
      "text": "But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 48:19",
      "text": "His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 4:23",
      "text": "and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 7:14",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 10:3",
      "text": "Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:28",
      "text": "The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 22:16",
      "text": "If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 20:21",
      "text": "Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 22:13",
      "text": "Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=13"
    }
  ],
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