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Refusing

מֵאֵןStrong’s H3987

meen (me-en)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Meen is the Hebrew word usually translated “who are refusing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.”
Jeremiah 13:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. Refusing
How it's translated
  • who are refusing 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מֵאֵן meen · refusing

    refusing

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “refusing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    REFU'SING, participle present

    tense Denying; declining to accept; rejecting.

      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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.