παραιτέομαι paraiteomai

Greek word for “to refuse/excuse” · Strong’s G3868 · used 12 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

παρ-αιτέομαι, -οῦμαι;

How it is translated

Glosses given for paraiteomai in context, with how often each is used:

• do refuse 4
• excused 2
• requesting 1
• excuse themselves 1
• do reject 1
• excused themselves 1
• may refuse 1
• having refused 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 14 (2), Hebrews 12 (2), Mark 15 (1), Acts 25 (1), 1 Timothy 4 (1), 1 Timothy 5 (1), 2 Timothy 2 (1), Titus 3 (1)

Forms

• παραιτοῦ 4
• παρῃτημένον 2
• παρῃτοῦντο 1
• παραιτεῖσθαι 1
• παραιτοῦμαι 1
• παρῃτήσαντο 1
• παραιτήσησθε 1
• παραιτησάμενοι 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with paraiteomai more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀγοράζω agorazō “to buy” 2
• εἷς ehis “one” 3
• ἐρωτάω erōtaō “to ask” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using paraiteomai that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 15:6 — Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
• Luke 14:18 — And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have…
• 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.
• Acts 25:11 — For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man…
• 1 Timothy 4:7 — But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
• 1 Timothy 5:11 — But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
• 2 Timothy 2:23 — But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
• Titus 3:10 — A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
• Hebrews 12:19 — And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
• Hebrews 12:25 — See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.