paraiteomai · ask for, refuse

What it means

paraiteomai (παραιτέομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ask for, refuse”.

Ask for; also refuse, decline, excuse oneself.

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 ask that something be done or not.
2. To decline something, turn it down.
3. To beg off.

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

How it is translated

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

• refuse ×6
• excused ×2
• begged ×1
• make excuses ×1
• they asked for ×1
• when they refused ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• Acts×1
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×3

• Mark 15:6

  Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner, whomever they asked for.

• Luke 14:18

  And they all began alike to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused.’

• Luke 14:19

  And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; I ask you, have me excused.’

• Acts 25:11

  If then I am a wrongdoer and have done anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is nothing in the things of which these men accuse me, no one can surrender me to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

• 1 Timothy 4:7

  But refuse the profane and old wives’ myths. Rather, train yourself for godliness;

• 1 Timothy 5:11

  But refuse younger widows, for when their desires draw them away from the Messiah, they want to marry,

• 2 Timothy 2:23

  But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

• Titus 3:10

  A divisive person, after a first and second warning, refuse,

• Hebrews 12:19

  and to the sound of a trumpet and to a voice of words, which those who heard begged that no word be added to them,

• Hebrews 12:25

  See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from the one who warns from the heavens.

And 2 more times.