James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Refuse

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Refuse


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REFUSE.—The vb. ‘to refuse’ has lost much of its vigour. In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] it often means ‘to reject.’ Thus Psa_118:22 ‘The stone which the builders refused.’ Cf. Tindale’s trans. of Mat_24:40 ‘Then two shalbe in the feldes, the one shalbe receaved, and the other shalbe refused.’