Verb atheteō (to reject, to annul) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Mark

6: 26The king was deeply grieved; yet out of regard for his oaths and for the guests, he did not want to reject (atheteō) her (request).
7: 9Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting (atheteō) the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

Luke

7: 30But by refusing to be baptized by him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected (atheteō) God's purpose for themselves.)
10: 16"Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects (atheteō) you rejects (atheteō) me, and whoever rejects (atheteō) me rejects (atheteō) the one who sent me."

John

12: 48The one who rejects (atheteō) me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,

1 Thessalonians

4: 8Therefore whoever rejects (atheteō) this rejects (atheteō) not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1 Corinthians

1: 19For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will reject (atheteō)."

Galatians

2: 21I do not annul (atheteō) the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
3: 15Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person's will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls (atheteō) it.

1 Timothy

5: 12and so they incur condemnation for having annulled (atheteō) their first pledge.

Hebrews

10: 28Anyone who has rejected (atheteō) the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

Jude

1: 8Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject (atheteō) authority, and slander the glorious ones.

Exodus (LXX)

21: 8If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has rejected (atheteō) her.

Deuteronomy (LXX)

21: 14And it shall be if thou do not delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, thou shalt not reject (atheteō) her, because thou hast humbled her.

Judges (LXX)

9: 23And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Sicima; and the men of Sicima rejected (atheteō) the house of Abimelech:

1 Samuel (LXX: 1 Kings)

2: 17So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for they rejected (atheteō) the offering of the Lord.
13: 3And Jonathan smote Nasib the Philistine that dwelt in the hill; and the Philistines hear of it, and Saul sounds the trumpet through all the land, saying, The servants have rejected (atheteō) us.

1 Kings (LXX: 2 Kings)

8: 50and thou shalt be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee, and according to all their transgressions wherewith they have rejected (atheteō) thee, and thou shalt cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them:
12: 19So Israel rejected (atheteō) the house of David until this day.

2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)

1: 1And Moab rejected (atheteō) Israel after the death of Achaab.
3: 5And it came to pass, after the death of Achaab, that the king of Moab rejected (atheteō) the king of Israel.
3: 7And he went and sent to Josaphat king of Juda, saying, The king of Moab has rejected (atheteō) me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to war? And he said, I will go up: thou art as I, I am as thou; as my people, so is thy people, as my horses, so are thy horses.
8: 20In his days Edom rejected (atheteō) (being) under the hand of Juda, and they made a king over themselves.
8: 22Yet Edom rejected (atheteō) (being) under the hand of Juda till this day. Then Lobna rejected (atheteō) also at that time.
18: 7And the Lord was with him; and he was wise in all that he undertook: and he rejected (atheteō) the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.
18: 20Thou hast said, (but they are mere words,) I have counsel and strength for war. Now then in whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rejected (atheteō) me?
24: 1In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and then he turned and rejected (atheteō) him.
24: 20For it was according to the Lord's anger against Jerusalem and on Juda, until he cast them out of his presence, that Sedekias rejected (atheteō) the king of Babylon.

1 Chronicles (LXX)

2: 7And the sons of Charmi; Achar the troubler of Israel, who rejected (atheteō) the accursed thing.
5: 25But they rejected (atheteō) the God of their fathers, and went a-whoring after the gods of the nations of the land, whom God cast out from before them.

2 Chronicles (LXX)

10: 19So Israel rejected (atheteō) the house of David until this day.
36: 13in that he rejected (atheteō) king Nabuchodonosor, which he adjured him by God not to do: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, so as not to return to the Lord God of Israel.
36: 14And the chief men of Judah, and the priests and the people of the land, multiplied (the deeds) of rejecting (atheteō) (the Law) with rejects (typical) of the abominations of foreign peoples, and they defiled the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.

Isaiah (LXX)

1: 2 Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rejected (atheteō) me.
21: 2 so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he, that is used to reject (atheteō), rejects (atheteō), the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
24: 16O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to those who reject (atheteō), rejecting (atheteō) the law.
27: 4 There is no city that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have rejected (atheteō) her; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.
31: 2 Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be annulled (atheteō); and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,
33: 1 Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that rejects (atheteō) you does not reject (atheteō) you anymore: they that reject (atheteō) you shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.
48: 8 Thou hast neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened thine ears: for I knew that, being someone who rejects (atheteō), thou wouldest surely reject (atheteō), and wouldest be called a transgressor even from the womb.
63: 8And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not reject (atheteō) me: and he became to them deliverance

Jeremiah (LXX)

3: 20But as a wife rejects (atheteō) her husband, so has the house of Israel rejected (atheteō) me, saith the Lord.
5: 11For by rejecting (atheteō), the house of Israel have indeed rejected (atheteō) me, saith the Lord: the house of Juda also
9: 1 (2)Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly who is used to reject (atheteō).
12: 1Righteous art thou, O Lord, that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I will speak to thee of judgments. Why is it that the way of ungodly men prospers? that all that rejected (atheteō) you are flourishing?
12: 6For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have rejected (atheteō) thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.
15: 16from those who reject (atheteō) thy words; consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

Ezekiel (LXX)

22: 26Her priests also have rejected (atheteō) my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.
39: 23And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rejected (atheteō) me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

Daniel (LXX)

9: 7To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, and to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever thou hast scattered them, for they rejected (atheteō) you.

Lamentations (LXX)

1: 2Beth. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have rejected (atheteō) her, they are become her enemies.

Psalms (LXX)

15 (14): 4In his sight an evil-worker is set at nought, but he honours them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbour, and does not annul (atheteō) his word.
33 (32): 10The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; he rejects (atheteō) also the reasonings of the peoples, and rejects (atheteō) the counsels of princes.
89 (88): 35Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not annul (atheteō) the things that proceed out of my lips.
132 (131): 11The Lord sware in truth to David, and he will not annul (atheteō) it, saying, Of the fruit of thy body will I set a king upon thy throne.

Esther (LXX)

2: 15And when the time was fulfilled for Esther the daughter of Aminadab the brother of Mardochaeus' father to go in to the king, she rejected (atheteō) nothing which the chamberlain, the women's keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all that looked upon her.

Judith (LXX)

14: 18These slaves rejected (atheteō) (their fate); one woman of the Hebrews hath brought shame upon the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for, behold, Holofernes lieth upon the ground without a head.
16: 5But the Almighty Lord hath rejected (atheteō) them by the hand of a woman.

Wisdom (LXX)

5: 1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and have rejected (atheteō) his labours.

1 Maccabees (LXX)

6: 62Then the king entered into mount Sion: but when he saw the strength of the place, he annulled (atheteō) his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
11: 36And nothing hereof shall be annulled (atheteō) from this time forth for ever.
14: 44Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or priests to annul (atheteō) any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold:
14: 45and whosoever should do otherwise, or annul (atheteō) any of these things, he should be punished.
15: 27Nevertheless he would not receive them, but annul (atheteō) all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.

2 Maccabees (LXX)

13: 25came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the covenants; for they stormed, because they would annul (atheteō) their covenants.
14: 28When this came to Nicanor's hearing, he was much confounded in himself, and took it grievously that he should make annul (atheteō) the articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.