Luke 14:18
And 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.
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2 Corinthians 12:19
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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ἀναπολόγητος
anapológētos · an-ap-ol-og'-ay-tos
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
indefensible
Strong's KJV usage: :--without an excuse, inexcusable.
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Strong's first: Romans 1:20Strong's last: Romans 1:20
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paraitéomai · par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun
Strong's KJV usage: :--avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.
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Strong's first: Luke 14:18Strong's last: Luke 14:18
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And 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.
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
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Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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excuse
EXCU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin excuso; ex and causor, to blame. See Cause.]
1. To pardon; to free from the imputation of fault or blame; to acquit of guilt. We excuse a person in our own minds, when we acquit him of guilt or blame; or we excuse him by a declaration of that acquital.
2. To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook. We excuse a fault, which admits of apology or extenuation; and we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
3. To free from an obligation or duty.
I pray thee have me excused. Luke 14:18.
4. To remit; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
5. To pardon; to admit an apology for.
Excuse some courtly strains.
6. To throw off an imputation by apology.
Think you that we excuse ourselves to you? 2 Corinthians 12:19.
7. To justify; to vindicate.
Their thoughts accusing or else excusing one another. Romans 2:1.
EXCU'SE, noun A plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology. Every man has an excuse to offer for his neglect of duty; the debtor makes excuses for delay of payment.
1. The act of excusing or apologizing.
2. That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault. His inability to comply with the request must be his excuse
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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