Dictionaries :: Eschew

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Eschew:

from old French eschever, "to flee from" (Job 1:1,8; 2:3; 1Pe 3:11).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Eschew:

es-choo' (cur; ekklino):

Only 4 times in the King James Version (Job 1:1,8; 2:3; 1Pe 3:11), in all of which the American Standard Revised Version renders by the appropriate form of "turn away from."

King James Dictionary

Eschew: To Avoid; Turn Aside From.

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him ESCHEW evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. (1 Peter 3:10-11)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Eschew:

"to turn aside" (ek, "from," klino, "to turn, bend"), is used metaphorically

(a) of leaving the right path, Rom 3:12, RV, "turned aside," for AV, "gone out of the way;"

(b) of turning away from division-makers and errorists, Rom 16:17, RV, "turn away from;"

(c) of turning away from evil, 1Pe 3:11, RV, "turn away from," AV, "eschew."
See AVOID, TURN. In the Sept. the verb is frequently used of declining or swerving from God's ways, e.g., Job 23:11; Psa 44:18; 119:51, 157.