Strong's #662: 'aphaq (pronounced aw-fak')

a primitive root; to contain, i.e. (reflex.) abstain:--force (oneself), restrain.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âphaq

1) to hold, be strong, restrain, hold back

1a) (Hithpael)

1a1) to restrain oneself, refrain

1a2) to force, compel oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Genesis 43:31: "And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread."
Genesis 45:1: "Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried,"
1 Samuel 13:12: "made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering."
Esther 5:10: "Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came he sent and called for"
Isaiah 42:14: "I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy"
Isaiah 63:15: "and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?"
Isaiah 64:12: " Wilt thou refrain thyself for these wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?"