Strong's Concordance G3868

Original Word: παραιτέομαι
Transliteration: paraitéomai
Phonetic Spelling: par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
[παραιτέομαι] from G3844 and the middle voice of G154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun

Usages throughout the bible

Luke 14:18 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. 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 excused. G3868

Luke 14:19 - And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. G3868

Acts 25:11 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse 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.

1 Timothy 4:7 - But refuse G3868 profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

1 Timothy 5:11 - But the younger widows refuse: G3868 for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

2 Timothy 2:23 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, G3868 knowing that they do gender strifes.

Titus 3:10 - A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; G3868

Hebrews 12:19 - And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated G3868 that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

Hebrews 12:25 - See that ye refuse G3868 not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him G3868 that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: