Strong's Lexicon
G3868 — παραιτέομαι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3868 |
|---|---|
| Word: | παραιτέομαι |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G3844 and the middle voice of G154 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 12 |
| Transliteration: | paraiteomai |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | par-ai-teh'-om-ai |
| Meaning: | 1. to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun |
| KJV Renderings: | avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραιτέομαι, παραιτοῦμαι, imperative present παραιτοῦ; (imperfect 3 person plural παρῃτοῦντο, Mar 15:6 T WH Tr marginal reading, where others ὅνπερ ᾐτοῦντο (which see)); 1 aorist παρητησαμην; perfect passive participle παρητημενος with a passive significance; from Aeschylus and Pindar down;
1. properly, to ask alongside (παρά (IV. 1)), beg to have near one; to obtain by entreaty; to beg from, to ask for, supplicate: (Mar 15:6 (see above)).
2. to avert (παρά aside (see παρά, IV. 1)) by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate;
a. properly, followed by μή and an accusative with an infinitive (to intreat that ... not), Heb 12:19 (Thucydides 5, 63); cf. Winers Grammar, 604 (561); (Buttmann, § 148,13).
b. equivalent to to refuse, decline: τό ἀποθανεῖν, Act 25:11 (θανεῖν οὐ παραιτοῦμαι, Josephus, de vita sua29).
c. equivalent to to shun, avoid: τί, 1Ti 4:7; 2Ti 2:23; τινα, 1Ti 5:11; Tit 3:10; equivalent to to refuse, reject, Heb 12:25.
d. to avert displeasure by entreaty, i. e. to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse: ἔχε με παρῃτημένον (see ἔχω, I. 1 f.), Luk 14:18 f (of one excusing himself for not accepting an invitation to a feast, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 9).
STRONGS NT 3868a: παρακαθέζομαιπαρακαθέζομαι: to sit down beside (παρά, IV. 1), seat oneself (Xenophon, Plato, others); 1 aorist passive participle παρακαθεσθεις (Josephus, Antiquities 6, 11, 9); πρός τί, Luk 10:39 T Tr WIt (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 269).
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
παραιτέομαι (avoid)
Luke 14:18
- KJV: And they all with one 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
- GK: και ήρξαντο από μιάς παραιτείσθαι πάντες ο πρώτος είπεν αυτώ αγρόν ηγόρασα και έχω ανάγκην εξελθείν και ιδείν αυτόν ερωτώ σε έχε με παρητημένον
Luke 14:19
- KJV: And another said I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them I pray thee have me excused
- GK: και έτερος είπε ζεύγη βοών ηγόρασα πέντε και πορεύομαι δοκιμάσαι αυτά ερωτώ σε έχε με παρητημένον
Acts 25:11
- KJV: 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 may deliver me unto them I appeal unto Cæsar
- GK: ει μεν γαρ αδικώ και άξιον θανάτου πέπραχά τι ου παραιτούμαι το αποθανείν ει δε ουδέν εστιν ων ούτοι κατηγορούσι μου ουδείς με δύναται αυτοίς χαρίσασθαι Καίσαρα επικαλούμαι
1 Timothy 4:7
- KJV: But refuse profane and old wives’ fables and exercise thyself unto godliness
- GK: τους δε βεβήλους και γραώδεις μύθους παραιτού γύμναζε δε σεαυτόν προς ευσέβειαν
1 Timothy 5:11
- KJV: But the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry
- GK: νεωτέρας δε χήρας παραιτού όταν γαρ καταστρηνιάσωσι του χριστού γαμείν θέλουσιν
2 Timothy 2:23
- KJV: But foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes
- GK: τας δε μωράς και απαιδεύτους ζητήσεις παραιτού ειδώς ότι γεννώσι μάχας
Titus 3:10
- KJV: A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject
- GK: αιρετικόν άνθρωπον μετά μίαν και δευτέραν νουθεσίαν παραιτού
Hebrews 12:19
- KJV: And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them
- GK: και σάλπιγγος ήχω και φωνή ρημάτων ης οι ακούσαντες παρητήσαντο μη προστεθήναι αυτοίς λόγον
Hebrews 12:25
- KJV: See that ye refuse not him that speaketh For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more we if we turn away from him that from heaven
- GK: βλέπετε μη παραιτήσησθε τον λαλούντα ει γαρ εκείνοι ουκ έφυγον τον επί γης παραιτησάμενοι χρηματίζοντα πολλώ μάλλον ημείς οι τον απ΄ ουρανών αποστρεφόμενοι