3 occurrences in 12 translations

'Refuse' in the Bible

Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the Lord's house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfdiseasesSuffering, Nature OfProvokingLost Appetite

And the people refuse to hearken to the voice of Samuel, and say, 'Nay, but a king is over us,

Verse ConceptsTheocracySelf Will

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Verse ConceptsFatnessCovetousness, Example OfAnnihilation

Bible Theasaurus

Begrudge (2 instances)
Decline (11 instances)
Garbage (10 instances)
Grudge (10 instances)
Refuse (146 instances)
Reject (99 instances)
Resist (41 instances)
Scraps (5 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀπόβλητος 
Apobletos 
be refused
Usage: 1

ἀρνέομαι 
Arneomai 
Usage: 26

παραιτέομαι 
Paraiteomai 
Usage: 8

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