Strong's Concordance apechomai: abstain. Original Word: ἀπέχομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apechomai Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ekh'-om-ahee) Definition: abstain Usage: I abstain from, keep myself away from. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originmid. of apechó, q.v. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 567: ἀπέχωἀπέχω; (imperfect ἀπειχον Matthew 14:24 Tr text WH text; present middle ἀπέχομαι); 1. transitive, a. to hold back, keep off, prevent (Homer, Iliad 1, 97 (Zenodotus); 6, 96; Plato, Crat c. 23, p. 407 b.). b. to have wholly or in full, to have received (what one had a right to expect or demand; cf. ἀποδιδόναι, ἀπολαμβάνειν (Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 8; Gram. 275 (258); Buttmann, 203 (176); according to Lightfoot (on Philippians 4:18) ἀπό denotes correspondence, i. e. of the contents to the capacity, of the possession to the desire, etc.)): τινα, Philemon 1:15; μισθόν, Matthew 6:2, 5, 16; παράκλησιν, Luke 6:24; πάντα, Philippians 4:18; (often so in Greek writings (cf. Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited)). Hence, c. ἀπέχει, impersonally, it is enough, sufficient: Mark 14:41, where the explanation is 'ye have slept now long enough'; so that Christ takes away the permission, just given to his disciples, of sleeping longer; cf. Meyer at the passage; (in the same sense in (Pseudo-)Anacreon ( 2. intransitive, to be away, absent, distant (Buttmann, 144 (126)): absolutely, Luke 15:20; ἀπό, Luke 7:6; Luke 24:13; Matt. ( 3. Middle to hold oneself off, abstain: ἀπό τίνος, from anything, Acts 15:20 (R G); 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (Job 1:1; Job 2:3; Ezekiel 8:6); τίνος, Acts 15:29; 1 Timothy 4:3; 1 Peter 2:11. (So in Greek writings from Homer down.) Middle voice (reflexively) of apecho; to hold oneself off, i.e. Refrain -- abstain. see GREEK apecho Englishman's Concordance ἀπερίτμητοι — 1 Occ.ἀπῆλθα — 1 Occ. ἀπῆλθαν — 3 Occ. ἀπῆλθεν — 40 Occ. ἀπῆλθον — 18 Occ. ἀπεληλύθεισαν — 1 Occ. ἀπελήλυθεν — 1 Occ. ἀπελεύσομαι — 1 Occ. ἀπελευσόμεθα — 1 Occ. ἀπελεύσονται — 1 Occ. ἀπέλθητε — 2 Occ. ἀπελθεῖν — 11 Occ. ἀπέλθω — 2 Occ. ἀπελθὼν — 16 Occ. ἀπέλθωσιν — 1 Occ. ἀπελθόντες — 9 Occ. ἀπελθόντι — 1 Occ. Ἀπελθόντων — 1 Occ. ἀπελθοῦσα — 1 Occ. ἀπελθοῦσαι — 2 Occ. |