Exodus 4:23
And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
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Refuse
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Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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7 occurrences in 7 verses.
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מָאֵן
mâʼên · maw-ane'
10 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
to refuse
Strong's KJV usage: refuse, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 4:23Strong's last: Jeremiah 25:28
Open full H3985 profile →παραιτέομαι
paraitéomai · par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee
4 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 25:11Strong's last: Hebrews 12:25
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mâʼên · maw-ane'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
unwilling
Strong's KJV usage: refuse.
Strong's first: Exodus 8:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 38:21
Open full H3986 profile →מָאַס
mâʼaç · maw-as'
2 times translated as this KJV form75 total Strong's occurrences
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
Strong's KJV usage: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, × utterly, vile person.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 7:15Strong's last: Isaiah 7:16
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kîy · kee
1 times translated as this KJV form45 total Strong's occurrences
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
Strong's KJV usage: and, (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), but, certainly, doubtless, else, even, except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, (al-) though, till, truly, until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.
Strong's first: Job 34:33Strong's last: Job 34:33
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mâʼôwç · maw-oce'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
refuse
Strong's KJV usage: refuse.
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:45Strong's last: Lamentations 3:45
Open full H3973 profile →מֵאֵן
mêʼên · may-ane'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
refractory
Strong's KJV usage: refuse.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 13:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:10
Open full H3987 profile →מָסַס
mâçaç · maw-sas'
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
Strong's KJV usage: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, × utterly.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:9Strong's last: 1 Samuel 15:9
Open full H4549 profile →מַפָּל
mappâl · map-pawl'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a falling off, i.e. chaff; also something pendulous, i.e. a flap
Strong's KJV usage: flake, refuse.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Amos 8:6Strong's last: Amos 8:6
Open full H4651 profile →פָּרַע
pâraʻ · paw-rah'
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
to loosen; by implication, to expose, dismiss; figuratively, absolve, begin
Strong's KJV usage: avenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, (make) naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 8:33Strong's last: Proverbs 8:33
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H3985
And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
H3986
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
H3986
For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,
H3985
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
H3986
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
H3985
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
H3985
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
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refuse
REFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse ]
1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21.
2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.
If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jeremiah 25:28.
3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.
Proverbs 10:1.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalms 118:22.
[Note - refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.]
REFU'SE, verb intransitive s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse
REF'USE, adjective
Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception; as the refuse parts of stone or timber.
Please to bestow on him the refuse letters.
REF'USE, noun That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.
REFU'SE, noun Refusal. obsolete
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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