KJV WORD
COMBINED MEANING
To depart, withdraw, escape, or shun.
Reviewed KJV-relevant meaningMeaning drawn from:
WORD FAMILY
Root: Avoid
To depart, withdraw, escape, or shun.
KJV CONCORDANCE
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
To loosen; by implication, to expose, dismiss; figuratively, absolve, begin. KJV renderings: avenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, (make) naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.
Hebrew · Verb · Strong 1890Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
To deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety). KJV renderings: avoid, eschew, go out of the way.
Greek · Verb · Strong 1890Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
To beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun. KJV renderings: avoid, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.
Greek · Verb · Strong 1890But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
To stand all around, i.e. (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof) to keep away from. KJV renderings: avoid, shun, stand by (round about).
Greek · Verb · Strong 1890
