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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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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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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H5800
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
H6544
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
H6544
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
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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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