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Refuse

מַפָּלStrong’s H4651

mappal (map-pal)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mappal is the Hebrew word usually translated “hanging parts of” and “refuse of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.”
Job 41:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. Refuse, hanging partsfallings, refuse · hanging parts (of a crocodile)
How it's translated
  • hanging parts of 1
  • and refuse of 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Job 1
  • Amos 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַפָּל mappal · refuse

1) refuse, hanging parts 1a) fallings, refuse 1b) hanging parts (of a crocodile)

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

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 ]

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.