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refused

Meaning of “refused”

Rejected, declined, denied, withheld, turned away from, would not accept, receive, choose, obey, permit, or yield.

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First occurrence: Genesis 37:35

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Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 54:6 · retained source text

For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken, and grieued in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 5:3 · retained source text

O LORD, are not thine eyes vpon the trueth? thou hast stricken them, but they haue not grieued; thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a rocke, they haue refused to returne.

1611 marginal noteIsai.9.13. chap. 2.30.

Jeremiah 11:10
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 11:10 · retained source text

They are turned backe to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to heare my wordes: and they went after other gods to serue them: the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue broken my Couenant, which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 31:15
¶ Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 31:15 · retained source text

¶ Thus saith the LORD; A voyce was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping: Rahel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

1611 marginal noteMatth.2.18.

Jeremiah 50:33
¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:33 · retained source text

¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Iudah were oppressed together, and all that tooke them captiues, held them fast, they refused to let them goe.

Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:6 · retained source text

And she hath changed my iudgements into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreyes that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgements and my statutes, they haue not walked in them.

Hosea 11:5
¶ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hosea 11:5 · retained source text

¶ He shall not returne into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to returne

Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Zechariah 7:11 · retained source text

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their eares, that they should not heare.

1611 marginal noteHebr. they gaue a backsliding shoulder.

1611 marginal noteHebr. made heauie.

Acts 7:35
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Acts 7:35 · retained source text

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a Iudge? the same did God send to bee a ruler and a deliuerer, by the handes of the Angel which appeared to him in the bush.

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