ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ, παραιτησις
PARAITĒSIS, paraitēsis
Sounds Like: pah-rah-EE-tay-sis
Translations: refusal, a refusal, rejection, an excuse, a plea, deprecation, entreaty
From the root: ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a noun that refers to the act of refusing, rejecting, or declining something. It can also mean an excuse or a plea for exemption. In some contexts, it can denote a deprecation or an entreaty to avert something undesirable.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3866 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 10:241
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΙ — request, entreaty, excuse, refusal, rejection, a request, an entreaty, an excuse, a refusal, a rejection
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΣΙΝ — (to) a refusal, (to) an excuse, (to) a rejection, (to) a deprecation, (to) an entreaty
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΕΩΣ — of refusal, of rejection, of excuse, of deprecation, of entreaty, of a request
- ΠΑΡΑΙΤΗΣΙΝ — request, entreaty, excuse, refusal, a request, an entreaty, an excuse, a refusal
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