Strong’s G567 · Greek
ἀπέχομαι
apéchomai · ap-ekh'-om-ahee
Origin middle voice (reflexively) of ἀπέχω (G568);
Meaning to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain
In the King James Version abstain.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from all appearance of evil.
- 1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- 1 Peter 2:11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.