Avoid

a-void: Archaic use in 1 Sam 18:11 for "escaped." In the Revised Version (British and American) of New Testament only in 2 Cor 8:20 stellomenoi (with negative), literally, "arranging that not," etc., i. e. by anticipation providing that something should not occur. In the King James Version for "turn away from," ekklinete: Rom 16:17; 1 Tim 6:20; "refuse," paraitou, 2 Tim 2:23; periistaso, Titus 3:9.