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
Open full G3868 profile →מָאֵן
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.
H4549
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
H3588
Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
H6544
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
H3985
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
H3985
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
H3985
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
H3988
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
H3988
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
H3985
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
H3985
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
H3987
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
H3985
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
H3986
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
H3973
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
H4651
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
G3868
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 Caesar.
G3868
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
G3868
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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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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