Avoid (Hastings' Dictionary)

This verb is used thirteen times in AV (counting Wis 16- " one), yet it does not twice translate the same word. In 1 S 18" there is an instance of the intrans. use, ' David a"* out of his presence twice.' Cf. North, Plutarch, ' tliey made proclamation . . that all the Volsces should avoid out of Rome before sunset.' In this sense 'avoid' is most frequently used in the imperative. Thus Coverdale's tr. of Mt 16^ is ' Auoyde fro me, Sathan.' Cf. Shaks. Comedy of Errors, IV. iii.

48 — * Satan, avoid I 1 charge thee, tempt me not t ' J. Hastings.