avoid 1624 # ektrepo {ek-trep'-o}; from 1537 and the base of 5157; to deflect, i.e. turn away (literally or figuratively): -- {avoid}, turn (aside, out of the way).[ql avoid 3868 # paraiteomai {par-ahee-teh'-om-ahee}; from 3844 and the middle voice of 154; to beg off, i.e. deprecate, decline, shun: -- {avoid}, (make) excuse, intreat, refuse, reject.[ql avoid 4026 # periistemi {per-ee-is'-tay-mee}; from 4012 and 2476; to stand all around, i.e. (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof) to keep away from: -- {avoid}, shun, stand by (round about).[ql avoid 1578 # ekklino {ek-klee'-no}; from 1537 and 2827; to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety): -- {avoid}, eschew, go out of the way.[ql avoid 4724 # stello {stel'-lo}; probably strengthened from the base of 2476; properly, to set fast ("stall"), i.e. (figuratively) to repress (reflexively, abstain from associating with): -- {avoid}, withdraw self.[ql avoid 1223 # dia {dee-ah'}; a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional): -- after, always, among, at, to {avoid}, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause)...fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with(-in). In composition it retains the same general import.[ql ***. Dia. See 2203.[ql keep 1301 # diatereo {dee-at-ay-reh'-o}; from 1223 and 5083; to watch thoroughly, i.e. (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly: -- {keep}.[ql