Strong G3868παραιτέομαι
to refuse/excuse
- Transliteration
- paraiteomai
- Pronunciation
- par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
παρ-αιτέομαι, -οῦμαι
[in LXX for בָּקַשׁ pi., etc.;]
1. to beg of or from another: Mrk.15:6 (Rec. ὅνπερ ᾐτοῦντο, see Field, Notes, 43).
2. to deprecate;
__(a) prop., with neg., to entreat that not (Thuc., al.): Heb.12:19;
__(b) to refuse, decline, avoid: o. accusative, 1Ti.4:7 5:11, 2Ti.2:23, Tit.3:10, Heb.12:25 (EV; but see Field, Notes, 234).
3. to beg off, ask to be excused, excuse (Polyb., al.): Luk.14:18-19 (Heb.12:25, Field, l.with).†
(AS)
[in LXX for בָּקַשׁ pi., etc.;]
1. to beg of or from another: Mrk.15:6 (Rec. ὅνπερ ᾐτοῦντο, see Field, Notes, 43).
2. to deprecate;
__(a) prop., with neg., to entreat that not (Thuc., al.): Heb.12:19;
__(b) to refuse, decline, avoid: o. accusative, 1Ti.4:7 5:11, 2Ti.2:23, Tit.3:10, Heb.12:25 (EV; but see Field, Notes, 234).
3. to beg off, ask to be excused, excuse (Polyb., al.): Luk.14:18-19 (Heb.12:25, Field, l.with).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3868 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- refuse4
- excuse2
- avoid1
- intreated1
- make1
- reject1
First verses
- Luke 14:18And 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 me excused.
- Luke 14:19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
- Acts 25:11For 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 may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.
- 1 Timothy 4:7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
- 1 Timothy 5:11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
- 2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
- Titus 3:10A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
- Hebrews 12:19And 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 12:25See 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 that speaketh from heaven:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
παραιτ-έομαι,
beg of or from another, ask as a favour of him, τινά τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 27b, etc.)]; τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, 90)]: with infinitive added, ἓν δ᾽ αὐτοὺς παραιτησώμεθα, ἐπίδηλον ἡμῖν.. ποιεῖν, ἢν τοῖς ἔπεσι χαίρωσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 37)]: with infinitive for accusative, θεοὺς παραιτοῦ τῶν σ᾽ ἔρως ἔχει τυχεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 521)]; Προμηθέα -εῖται Ἐπιμηθεὺς αὐτὸς νεῖμαι asks P. for permission to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 320d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.146: with _accusative_ _cognate_, παραίτησιν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 107a.)]
2 παραιτησάμενος βασιλέα having obtained the king's leave, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.24)]: generally, intercede with, appeal to a person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.132, 5.33; κτεῖν᾽, οὐ παραιτοῦμαί σε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 1026, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1257)]; π. σφέας, ὡς ἄξουσι.. entreating them and saying that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.158)]: with double accusative, beg one's pardon for.., σὲ παραιτοῦμαι τάδε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 685: _absolutely_, εἴ τις ὑμῶν ἀχθεσθήσεται, παραιτοῦμαι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.21, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 39.1.6.)]
3 with accusative et infinitive, entreat one to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90, 6.86. γ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.14, etc.)]; παραιτήσομαι δ᾽ ὑμᾶς μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῆναί μοι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.58; π. σε συγγνώμην ἔχειν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 867)]: with genitive person et infinitive, beg of.., παραιτήσῃ πατρὸς φυγὰς ἀφεῖναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1154)]: with infinitive only, π. μηδὲν τούτων δρᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.63.)]
II with accusative of things, avert by entreaty, deprecate, τὴν ὀργήν [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.198; τὰς ζημίας ὑπέρ τινος [prev. author] 2.19, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.5; αἰκίαν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.80.8; τὸν φθόνον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 56; τὸ ἀποθανεῖν NT.Act.25.11: _absolutely_, τοῖς.. παραιτουμένοις [πρᾷοί εἰσιν] 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1380a28, compare “PCair.Zen.” 482.14 (3rd c.BC).)]
II.2 decline, deprecate, χάριν [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.30; τὴν διαίρεσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 358a; τοὺς πότους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 3; τοὺς.. γραώδεις μύθους NT.1Tim.4.7)]; π. [τὰ ὦτα] refuse to hear, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 11)]; refuse, βρώσεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “VA” 1.8, compare 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.7: with)]infinitive, παλιλλογεῖν παρῄτηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.365; παραιτοῦ φαγεῖν κάπρου κεφαλήν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus in “Rev.Phil.” 32.252)]; also τοὺς πολλοὺς χαρακτῆρας παρῃτημέναι εἰσὶν αἱ ἀντωνυμίαι do not admit.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 104.16)]; reject a theory, interpretation, or M[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus reading, Theo Sm.p.200 H., 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 2.7, Scholia 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.127, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 854)]; except, [Refs (Hdn.Gr. 2.929)]; reject the use of, avoid, τὴν λογικήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.15, compare 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 107, etc.)]
II.2.b demand exemption from, τὴν εἰς τὸ μέλλον γεωργίαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 3.1231.3 (2nd c.AD))]; ἀρχήν [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1252v28 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.3 with accusative person, ask him to excuse one, decline his invitation, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.27.3)]; παραιτησάμενος Ἔφορον, Latin pace Ephori, [NT ([prev. author] 5.33.2: _absolutely_, NT.Luke.14.18:—)]passive, ἔχε με παρῃτημένον[Refs ([prev. passage])]
II.4 π. γυναῖκα divorce her, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.206a)]; π. οἰκέτην dismiss him, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.82; π. τινὰ τῆς οἰκίας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Abd.” 19)]:—passive, τὴν παραίτησιν ᾗ παρὰ τοῦ Καρακάλλου παρῄτητο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.22.)]
II.5 of medicines, relieve, ναυσίαν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.70; ὀδόντων ἀλγήματα [prev. work]48.)]
III with accusative person, intercede for, beg off, especially from punishment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.119, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.51.1; π. τινὰ τιμωρίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 31)]; Θεσσαλοὺς τοῦ Μηδισμοῦ π. excuse them from the charge of Medism, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.868d; π. περί τινων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.6.29.)]
beg of or from another, ask as a favour of him, τινά τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 27b, etc.)]; τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.24, 90)]: with infinitive added, ἓν δ᾽ αὐτοὺς παραιτησώμεθα, ἐπίδηλον ἡμῖν.. ποιεῖν, ἢν τοῖς ἔπεσι χαίρωσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 37)]: with infinitive for accusative, θεοὺς παραιτοῦ τῶν σ᾽ ἔρως ἔχει τυχεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 521)]; Προμηθέα -εῖται Ἐπιμηθεὺς αὐτὸς νεῖμαι asks P. for permission to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 320d, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.146: with _accusative_ _cognate_, παραίτησιν π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 107a.)]
2 παραιτησάμενος βασιλέα having obtained the king's leave, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.24)]: generally, intercede with, appeal to a person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.132, 5.33; κτεῖν᾽, οὐ παραιτοῦμαί σε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 1026, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1257)]; π. σφέας, ὡς ἄξουσι.. entreating them and saying that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.158)]: with double accusative, beg one's pardon for.., σὲ παραιτοῦμαι τάδε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 685: _absolutely_, εἴ τις ὑμῶν ἀχθεσθήσεται, παραιτοῦμαι 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.21, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 39.1.6.)]
3 with accusative et infinitive, entreat one to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90, 6.86. γ, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.14, etc.)]; παραιτήσομαι δ᾽ ὑμᾶς μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῆναί μοι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.58; π. σε συγγνώμην ἔχειν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 867)]: with genitive person et infinitive, beg of.., παραιτήσῃ πατρὸς φυγὰς ἀφεῖναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1154)]: with infinitive only, π. μηδὲν τούτων δρᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.63.)]
II with accusative of things, avert by entreaty, deprecate, τὴν ὀργήν [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.198; τὰς ζημίας ὑπέρ τινος [prev. author] 2.19, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.5; αἰκίαν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.80.8; τὸν φθόνον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 56; τὸ ἀποθανεῖν NT.Act.25.11: _absolutely_, τοῖς.. παραιτουμένοις [πρᾷοί εἰσιν] 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1380a28, compare “PCair.Zen.” 482.14 (3rd c.BC).)]
II.2 decline, deprecate, χάριν [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.30; τὴν διαίρεσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 358a; τοὺς πότους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 3; τοὺς.. γραώδεις μύθους NT.1Tim.4.7)]; π. [τὰ ὦτα] refuse to hear, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 11)]; refuse, βρώσεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “VA” 1.8, compare 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.7: with)]infinitive, παλιλλογεῖν παρῄτηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.365; παραιτοῦ φαγεῖν κάπρου κεφαλήν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus in “Rev.Phil.” 32.252)]; also τοὺς πολλοὺς χαρακτῆρας παρῃτημέναι εἰσὶν αἱ ἀντωνυμίαι do not admit.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 104.16)]; reject a theory, interpretation, or M[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus reading, Theo Sm.p.200 H., 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 2.7, Scholia 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.127, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 854)]; except, [Refs (Hdn.Gr. 2.929)]; reject the use of, avoid, τὴν λογικήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.15, compare 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 107, etc.)]
II.2.b demand exemption from, τὴν εἰς τὸ μέλλον γεωργίαν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 3.1231.3 (2nd c.AD))]; ἀρχήν [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1252v28 (3rd c.AD).)]
II.3 with accusative person, ask him to excuse one, decline his invitation, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.27.3)]; παραιτησάμενος Ἔφορον, Latin pace Ephori, [NT ([prev. author] 5.33.2: _absolutely_, NT.Luke.14.18:—)]passive, ἔχε με παρῃτημένον[Refs ([prev. passage])]
II.4 π. γυναῖκα divorce her, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.206a)]; π. οἰκέτην dismiss him, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.82; π. τινὰ τῆς οἰκίας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Abd.” 19)]:—passive, τὴν παραίτησιν ᾗ παρὰ τοῦ Καρακάλλου παρῄτητο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.22.)]
II.5 of medicines, relieve, ναυσίαν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.70; ὀδόντων ἀλγήματα [prev. work]48.)]
III with accusative person, intercede for, beg off, especially from punishment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.119, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.51.1; π. τινὰ τιμωρίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 31)]; Θεσσαλοὺς τοῦ Μηδισμοῦ π. excuse them from the charge of Medism, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.868d; π. περί τινων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.6.29.)]