Strong's #567: apechomai (pronounced ap-ekh'-om-ahee)

middle voice (reflexively) of 568; to hold oneself off, i.e. refrain:--abstain.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apechomai

1) to hold one' s self off, refrain, abstain

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice (reflexively) of G568

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Acts 15:20: "But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and"
Acts 15:29: " That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and"
1 Thessalonians 4:3: "even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:"
1 Thessalonians 5:22: " Abstain from all appearance of evil."
1 Timothy 4:3: "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received"
1 Peter 2:11: "strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war"