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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
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• סורּ סָר, , שׂורּ
• פָּרַע , פָּרַע

(from "avoid," properly to make empty or void, in current usage, to keep away from, to shun; the word "avoid" is adapted from the O. Fr. esvuidier or hider, to empty out, voide, modern vide, ,empty, connected with Lat. vacuus), the action of making empty, void or null, hence, in law, invalidation, annulment (see Confession And Avoidance); also the becoming void or vacant, hence in ecclesiastical law a term signifying the vacancy of a benefice - that it is void of an incumbent. In general use, the word means the action of keeping away from anything, shunning or avoiding.