Eschew
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
From old French eschever, "to flee from" (Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 1 Peter 3:11).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v.) To shun; to avoid, to keep one's self clear of; as to eschew immorality.

2. (v.) To escape from; to avoid.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ESCHEW

es-choo' (cur; ekklino):

Only 4 times in the King James Version (Job 1:1, 8; Job 2:3 1 Peter 3:11), in all of which the American Standard Revised Version renders by the appropriate form of "turn away from."

Greek
1578. ekklino -- to deviate, to turn away (from someone or ...
... 2), turned aside (1). avoid, eschew, go out of the way. From ek and klino; to
deviate, ie (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1578.htm - 7k
Strong's Hebrew
5493. sur -- to turn aside
... behead, bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get you, go aside,.
Or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}; a primitive root; to turn off ...
/hebrew/5493.htm - 7k
Library

Either Then we are to Eschew Lies by Right Doing...
... Section 41. Either then we are to eschew lies by right doing? 41. Either
then we are to eschew lies by right doing, or to confess ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/section 41 either then we.htm

That a Man Should Weigh Each Thought and Each Stirring after that ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER That a man should weigh each thought and each
stirring after that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial sin. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the eleventh chapter.htm

Of the Setting of Man's Life
... doing. There are three things also that save cleanness of mouth: avisedness
of speech; to eschew mickle speech; and to hate lying. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter iv of the setting.htm

That God's Lover Forsakes the World, Idleness and Irksomeness: and ...
... they are not perceived by others lying in wait, in as mickle as they are aware;
and hiding covetousness under the title of ghostly rest, they eschew loss of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter x that gods lover.htm

The Teaching of the Apostles in Opposition to Jewish and Gentile ...
... an archangel. Wherefore, O woman, eschew such vain words, and be ever
mindful of God that created thee, and pray to Him. For He ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec v the teaching of the.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... ruins of the poor country. And how wilt thou join in that? Or how can thou
eschew it, if thou walk with them? If it were no more ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

The Heresies Attacked by the Apostles.
... certain barbarous names, and, as they think, of angels, but, to speak the truth,
of demons, which suggest things to them: whose doctrine eschew, that ye may ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iii the heresies attacked by.htm

The Cloud of Unknowing
... HERE BEGINNETH THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER That a man should weigh each thought and each
stirring after that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial sin. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/

Against Lying
... Section 41. Either then we are to eschew lies by right doing? [ Prev]
[Top] [Next ]. Against Lying Christian Bookshelf. >.
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/

But Some Man Will Say, Would Then those Midwives and Rahab have ...
... Nay verily, those Hebrew women, if they were such as that sort of persons of whom
we ask whether they ought ever to tell a lie, would both eschew to say aught ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/section 34 but some man.htm

Thesaurus
Eschew (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (v.) To shun; to avoid, to keep one's self clear of;
as to eschew immorality. ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ESCHEW. ...
/e/eschew.htm - 7k

Ensue (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Ensue (1 Occurrence). 1 Peter 3:11 Let him eschew
evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. (KJV). ...
/e/ensue.htm - 7k

Eschewed (1 Occurrence)

/e/eschewed.htm - 6k

Shun (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way
of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice. ...
/s/shun.htm - 10k

Abstinence (2 Occurrences)
... Cross, or even of Francis, who "of all ascetics approached most nearly to the spirit
of the Master." Jesus did not flee from the world, or eschew the amenities ...
/a/abstinence.htm - 25k

Essenes
... as three. The first he discusses is the Essenes. They are very devotional
and temperate and eschew matrimony. They despise wealth ...
/e/essenes.htm - 38k

Eschatology

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Concordance
Eschew (1 Occurrence)

1 Peter 3:11
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
(KJV)

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