Strong's Number 3868
Transliteration:
paraiteomai
{par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee}
Word Origin:
from
3844 and the middle voice of
154
TDNT:
1:195,30
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
refuse 5, excuse 2, make excuse 1, avoid 1, reject 1, intreat 1
Total: 11
Definition:
- to ask along side, beg to have near one
- to obtain by entreaty
- to beg from, to ask for, supplicate
- to avert by entreaty or seek to avert, to deprecate
- to entreat that ... not
- to refuse, decline
- to shun, avoid
- to avert displeasure by entreaty
- to beg pardon, crave indulgence, to excuse
- of one excusing himself for not accepting a wedding invitation to a feast