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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Avoid Evil
Dictionaries
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Sinners: Their Company to Be Avoided
• Preacher: to Avoid a Lofty Style
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Avoid
King James Dictionary
• Avoiding
• Avoided
• Avoid
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Avoid
Webster Dictionary
• Avoiding
• Avoider
• Avoided
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Avoidance
• Confession and Avoidance
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Avoid
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Avoidance
Lexicons
• ܩܢܰܛ
• ἀποτρέπω
• ἐκκλίνω
• ἐκτρέπω
•   (only first 3 shown)
• סורּ סָר, , שׂורּ
• פָּרַע , פָּרַע

(1):

(a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.

(2):

(a.) To empty.

(3):

(a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

(4):

(a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

(5):

(v. i.) To become void or vacant.

(6):

(a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

(7):

(a.) To get rid of.

(8):

(a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.

(9):

(v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.