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title: "Strong"
description: "G3868 παραιτέομαι (paraitéomai) definition:  to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun"
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## G3868 Definition

 Strong's number G3868
 
Lemma παραιτέομαι
 
Transliteration paraitéomai
 
Pronunciation -
 
Strong's definition to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject from [G3844](/lexicon/G3844) (παρά) and the middle voice of [G154](/lexicon/G154) (αἰτέω);
 
## 9 instances of the word παραιτέομαι
 paraitéomai (G3868) 

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

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

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

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Acts 25:11 - if For I be an offender or worthy of death have committed any thing not I refuse to die if but no man there be of these things whereof these accuse me no man me may unto them deliver Caesar I appeal unto

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Hebrews 12:19 - And of a trumpet the sound And the voice of words which voice they that heard intreated not any more to them that the word

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

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Luke 14:18 - And consent began with excused they all The first said it a piece of ground I have bought And I must needs go And see it I pray thee I must me excused

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

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

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