atheteō · reject

What it means

atheteō (ἀθετέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “reject”.

Set aside; nullify.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make something established worthless.
2. To treat someone as worthless and pay him no heed.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rejects ×7
• set aside ×5
• annuls ×1
• refuse ×1
• reject ×1
• rejected ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×2
• Luke×5
• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• Jude×1

• Mark 6:26

  And the king, although he became deeply grieved, because of his oaths and those reclining at table, did not want to refuse her.

• Mark 7:9

  And he was saying to them, “How well you set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

• Luke 7:30

  but the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been immersed by him.

• Luke 10:16

  Whoever hears you hears me, and whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

• John 12:48

  Whoever rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge: the word that I have spoken, that will judge him on the last day.

• 1 Corinthians 1:19

  For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the discerning I will set aside.

• Galatians 2:21

  I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then the Messiah died for nothing.

• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, I speak in human terms: even a man’s covenant, once ratified, no one annuls or adds to it.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:8

  Therefore the one who rejects this rejects not a human being but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

• 1 Timothy 5:12

  incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their first faith.

• Hebrews 10:28

  Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without compassion on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

• Jude 1:8

  Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glories.

And 4 more times.