Exodus 7:14
And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
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Refuseth
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Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
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מָאֵן
mâʼên · maw-ane'
5 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 7:14Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:18
Open full H3985 profile →פָּרַע
pâraʻ · paw-rah'
2 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.
Strong's first: Proverbs 13:18Strong's last: Proverbs 15:32
Open full H6544 profile →מָאַס
mâʼaç · maw-as'
1 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 8:6Strong's last: Isaiah 8:6
Open full H3988 profile →עָזַב
ʻâzab · aw-zab'
1 times translated as this KJV form215 total Strong's occurrences
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 10:17Strong's last: Proverbs 10:17
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H3985
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
H3985
And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.
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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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