Eschew

ESCHEW.—In the older Eng. versions of the Bible ‘eschew’ is common. In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] it occurs only in Job 1:1; Job 1:8; Job 2:3 of Job himself, as Job 1:1 ‘one that feared God, and eschewed evil,’ and in 1Pe 3:11 ‘Let him eschew evil, and do good.’ The meaning is ‘turn away from’ (as RV [Note: Revised Version.] at 1Pe 3:11 and Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] everywhere).

es-choo´ (סוּר, ṣūr; ἐκκλίνω, ekklı́nō): Only 4 times in the King James Version (Job 1:1, Job 1:8; Job 2:3; 1Pe 3:11), in all of which the American Standard Revised Version renders by the appropriate form of “turn away from.”