Refuse
פֶּ֫רֶשׁStrong’s H6569peresh (pe-resh)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peresh is the Hebrew word usually translated “offal its”, “offal their” and “dung”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.”
Meaning
- Faecal matter, dung, offal
How it's translated
- offal its 3
- and offal its 1
- offal their 1
- dung 1
- dung of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Malachi 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 4:11And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,
- Leviticus 8:17But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 16:27And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
- Numbers 19:5And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
- Malachi 2:3Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫רֶשׁ peresh · refuse
faecal matter, dung, offal
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 ]
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.