Refrain
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to stop," is used in the Active Voice in the sense of "making to cease, restraining" in 1—Peter 3:10 , of causing the tongue to refrain from evil; elsewhere in the Middle Voice, see Cease , No. 1.
"to cause to depart," is used intransitively, in the sense of "departing from, refraining from," Acts 5:38 . See Depart , No. 20.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
(2): ( v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
(3): ( v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
(4): ( v. t.) To abstain from
King James Dictionary [3]
Refra'In, L refaeno re and fraeno, to curb fraenum, a rein. See Rein.
To hold back to restrain to keep from action.
My son - refrain thy foot from their path. Proverbs 1 .
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. Genesis 45 .
REFRA'IN, To forbear to abstain to keep one's self from action or interference.
Refrain from these men and let them alone. Acts 5 .
REFRA'IN, n. The burden of a song a kind of musical repetition.