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παραιτέομαι
Transliteration
paraiteomai;
Pronunciation
par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
Parts of Speech
v
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: TDNT 1:195
KJV Translation Count — 11x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: refuse (5), excuse (2), make excuse (1), avoid (1), reject (1), intreat (1)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1. to ask along side, beg to have near one
a. to obtain by entreaty
b. to beg from, to ask for, supplicate
2. to avert by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate
a. to entreat that ... not
b. to refuse, decline
c. to shun, avoid
d. to avert displeasure by entreaty
1. to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse
2. of one excusing himself for not accepting a wedding invitation to a feast
Strong's Definitions
par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee; from (3844) (παρά) and the middle of (154) (αἰτέω); to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun: — avoid, (make) excuse, entreat, refuse, reject.
Concordance Results Using KJV
And they all with one consent began to G3868 G3868. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me G3868d.
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me G3868d.
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I G3868 not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
But G3868 profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
But the younger widows G3868: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
But foolish and unlearned questions G3868, knowing that they do gender strifes.
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard G3868ed that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
See that ye G3868 not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who G3868d him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: