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Lexicon :: Strong's G3868 - paraiteomai

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παραιτέομαι
Transliteration
paraiteomai (Key)
Pronunciation
par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From παρά (G3844) and the middle voice of αἰτέω (G154)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:195,30

Strong’s Definitions

παραιτέομαι paraitéomai, par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee; from G3844 and the middle voice of G154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun:—avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G3868 in the following manner: refuse (5x), excuse (2x), make excuse (1x), avoid (1x), reject (1x), intreat (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G3868 in the following manner: refuse (5x), excuse (2x), make excuse (1x), avoid (1x), reject (1x), intreat (1x).

  1. to ask along side, beg to have near one

    1. to obtain by entreaty

    2. to beg from, to ask for, supplicate

  2. to avert by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate

    1. to entreat that ... not

    2. to refuse, decline

    3. to shun, avoid

    4. 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 [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
παραιτέομαι paraitéomai, par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee; from G3844 and the middle voice of G154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun:—avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.
STRONGS G3868:
παραιτέομαι, παραιτοῦμαι, imperative present παραιτοῦ; (imperfect 3 person plural παρῃτοῦντο, Mark 15:6 T WH Tr marginal reading, where others ὅνπερ ᾐτοῦντο (which see)); 1 aorist παρητησαμην; perfect passive participle παρητημενος with a passive significance; from Aeschylus and Pindar down;
1. properly, to ask alongside (παρά (IV. 1)), beg to have near one; to obtain by entreaty; to beg from, to ask for, supplicate: (Mark 15:6 (see above)).
2. to avert (παρά aside (see παρά, IV. 1)) by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate;
a. properly, followed by μή and an accusative with an infinitive (to intreat that... not), Hebrews 12:19 (Thucydides 5, 63); cf. Winers Grammar, 604 (561); (Buttmann, § 148,13).
b. equivalent to to refuse, decline: τό ἀποθανεῖν, Acts 25:11 (θανεῖν οὐ παραιτοῦμαι, Josephus, de vita sua29).
c. equivalent to to shun, avoid: τί, 1 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 2:23; τινα, 1 Timothy 5:11; Titus 3:10; equivalent to to refuse, reject, Hebrews 12:25.
d. to avert displeasure by entreaty, i. e. to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse: ἔχε με παρῃτημένον (see ἔχω, I. 1 f.), Luke 14:18f (of one excusing himself for not accepting an invitation to a feast, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 9).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Mark
15:6; 15:6
Luke
14:18
Acts
25:11
1 Timothy
4:7; 5:11
2 Timothy
2:23
Titus
3:10
Hebrews
12:19; 12:25

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3868 matches the Greek παραιτέομαι (paraiteomai),
which occurs 12 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:6 - Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:18 - 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 have me excused.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:19 - "Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:11 - For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:7 - But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:11 - But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 2:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:23 - But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:10 - Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:19 - the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:25 - See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Eretz, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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