Defer

Defer - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DEFER, v.t. [L. To bear.]

1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.

When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Eccl 5.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Prov 13.

2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.

[In this sense, refer is now used.]

de-fur' ('achar (in Hiphil), 'arakh (in Hiphil), mashakh (in Niphal), "to postpone," more or less definitely; "delay": In Old Testament passages such as Isa 48:9; Eze 12:25,28; Da 9:19, the idea of indefinite postponement agrees with the Hebrew and with the context. In the only New Testament occurrence of the word anaballo, in the middle voice, Ac 24:22) a definite postponement is implied.