Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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Abstain
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1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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ἀπέχομαι
apéchomai · ap-ekh'-om-ahee
5 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain
Strong's KJV usage: :--abstain.
Strong's first: Acts 15:20Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:11
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Forbidding 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.
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abstain
ABSTA'IN, verb intransitive [Latin abstineo, to keep from; abs and teneo, to hold. See Tenant.]
In a general sense, to forbear, or refrain from, voluntarily; but used chiefly to denote a restraint upon the passions or appetites; to refrain from indulgence.
Abstain from meats offered to idols. Acts 15:29.
To abstain from the use of ardent spirits; to abstain from luxuries.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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