Strong's #3868: paraiteomai (pronounced par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee)

from 3844 and the middle voice of 154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun:--avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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paraiteomai

1) to ask along side, beg to have near one

1a) to obtain by entreaty

1b) to beg from, to ask for, supplicate

2) to avert by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate

2a) to entreat that ... not

2b) to refuse, decline

2c) to shun, avoid

2d) to avert displeasure by entreaty

2d1) to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse

2d2) of one excusing himself for not accepting a wedding invitation to a feast

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G3844 and the middle voice of G154

Citing in TDNT: 1:195, 30

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Luke 14:18: "with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him,"
Luke 14:18: "thee have me excused."
Luke 14:19: "thee have me excused."
Acts 25:11: "any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if"
1 Timothy 4:7: "But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise"
1 Timothy 5:11: "But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ,"
2 Timothy 2:23: "and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do engender strifes."
Titus 3:10: "and second admonition reject;"
Hebrews 12:19: "of words; which voice they that heard entreated 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"
Hebrews 12:25: "they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much"