Dictionaries :: Refuse (Verb)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Refuse (Verb):

"to deny, renounce, reject," in late Greek came to signify "to refuse to acknowledge, to disown," and is translated "to refuse" in Act 7:35; Hbr 11:24.
See DENY, No. 1.

Refuse (Verb):

for the various meanings of which see AVOID, No. 3, denotes "to refuse" in Act 25:11; 1Ti 4:7; 5:11; 2Ti 2:23, RV (AV, "avoid"); Tts 3:10, RV (marg., "avoid;" AV, "reject"); Hbr 12:25 (twice), perhaps in the sense of "begging off."
See EXCUSE, INTREAT, REJECT.

Refuse (Verb):

"to prove, to approve," used with a negative in Rom 1:28, is translated "they refused," RV (AV, "they did not like"); RV marg., "did not approve."
See APPROVE, No. 1.

Notes:

(1) For parakouo, "to refuse to hear," RV in Mat 18:17 (twice), see HEAR, A, No. 7.

(2) In 1Ti 4:4, AV, apobletos, "rejected" (RV), is translated "refused."
See REJECT.