Strong's #3985: ma'en (pronounced maw-ane')

a primitive root; to refuse:--refuse, X utterly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâ'ên

1) (Piel) to refuse

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 41 times:

 

Genesis 37:35: "his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down"
Genesis 39:8: " But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, knoweth"
Genesis 48:19: "And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know also"
Exodus 4:23: "my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay"
Exodus 7:14: "Pharaoh's heart he refuseth to let the people go."
Exodus 10:3: "God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before"
Exodus 16:28: "unto Moses, How long refuse my commandments and my laws?"
Exodus 22:17: "If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money"
Exodus 22:17: "If her father utterly refuse utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money"
Numbers 20:21: "Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage wherefore Israel"
Numbers 22:13: "your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with"
Numbers 22:14: "Balak, Balaam refuseth to come with"
Deuteronomy 25:7: "the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel,"
1 Samuel 8:19: "Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, but"
1 Samuel 28:23: " But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with compelled"
2 Samuel 2:23: " Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote the fifth"
2 Samuel 13:9: "a pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused And Amnon said, Have out"
1 Kings 20:35: "of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite"
1 Kings 21:15: "of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth"
2 Kings 5:16: "none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused."
Nehemiah 9:17: " And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that among"
Esther 1:12: "But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment"
Job 6:7: "The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat."
Psalms 77:2: "and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted."
Psalms 78:10: "not the covenant of God, and refused to walk"
Proverbs 1:24: "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man"
Proverbs 21:7: "of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do"
Proverbs 21:25: "killeth him; for his hands refuse"
Isaiah 1:20: "But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for of the LORD"
Jeremiah 3:3: "latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's thou refusedst to be ashamed."
Jeremiah 5:3: "them, but they have not thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder"
Jeremiah 5:3: "they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return."
Jeremiah 8:5: "they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."
Jeremiah 9:6: "is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know the LORD."
Jeremiah 11:10: "the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused my words;"
Jeremiah 15:18: "perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as"
Jeremiah 25:28: "And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand"
Jeremiah 31:15: "weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because"
Jeremiah 50:33: "and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go."
Hosea 11:5: "but the Assyrian because they refused to return."
Zechariah 7:11: " But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped that they should not hear."