To reject
ἀθετέωStrong’s G0114atheteō
Appears in 12 verses of the New Testament
In short
Atheteō is the Greek word usually translated “rejecting”, “refuse” and “do you set aside”. It appears in 12 verses of the New Testament.
“Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.”
Meaning
Usually translated “rejecting”, “refuse” and “do you set aside”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- rejecting 4
- to refuse 1
- do you set aside 1
- rejected 1
- rejects 1
- he rejects 1
- i will frustrate 1
- i do set aside 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Mark 2
- Luke 2
- Galatians 2
- John 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
- 1 Thessalonians 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Jude 1:8In contextLikewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
- Mark 6:26And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath’s sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
- Mark 7:9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- Luke 10:16He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
- John 12:48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Greek dictionary
ἀθετέω atheteō · to reject
ἀθετέω, -ῶ (τίθημι), [in LXX for seventeen different words, פּשׁע, מרד, בּגד, מעל, etc., often meaning, as 1Ki.13:3 (Heb., al.), to revolt; properly, to make ἄθετον , or do away with what has been laid down (see DCG, i, 453 f.)]. 1. to set aside, disregard (in Gramm., to reject as spurious): διαθήκην , Gal.3:16; ἐντολήν , Mrk.7:9; νόμον . Heb.10:28; πίστιν , 1Ti.5:12. 2. to nullify, make void: Luk.7:30 (see Field, Notes, 59), 1Co.1:19, Gal.2:21. 3. to reject: Mrk.6:26 (Field, op. cit., 30), Lk 10:16, Jhn.12:48, I Th 48, Ju 8 (for exx. in π., see MM, VGT, see word). † (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refuse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REFU'SE, verb transitive
s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse ]
- To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border” Numbers 20:21
- To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.“If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand -” Jeremiah 25:28
- To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.“The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner” Psalms 118:22
All definitions and other forms of “refuse”
REFU'SE, verb intransitive
s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.
REF'USE, adjective
REF'USE, noun
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.
REFU'SE, noun
Refusal. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.