# H3985 מָאֵן

מָאֵן (mâʼên), Strong’s H3985: to refuse KJV: refuse, [idiom] utterly.. Occurs 41 times.

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*mâʼên* — to refuse

KJV: refuse, [idiom] utterly.

Occurs 41 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [מָאֵן] vb. Pi. refuse

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 37:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=35) — 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…
- [Genesis 39:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=8) — 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…
- [Genesis 48:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=19) — His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great…
- [Exodus 4:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=23) — 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…
- [Exodus 7:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=14) — The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
- [Exodus 10:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=3) — Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long…
- [Exodus 16:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=28) — The LORD said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
- [Exodus 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=16) — If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
- [Numbers 20:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=21) — Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
- [Numbers 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/22?v=13) — 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…