Refrain

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Παύω (Strong'S #3973 — Verb — pauo — pow'-o )

"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.

2: Ἀφίστημι (Strong'S #868 — Verb — aphistemi — af-is'-tay-mee )

"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

(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

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.