To refrain
עָגַןStrong’s H5702agan (a-gan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Agan is the Hebrew word usually translated “shut yourselves off”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.”
Meaning
- (Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
How it's translated
- will you shut yourselves off 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ruth 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָגַן agan · to refrain
(Niphal) to shut oneself in or off or up
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refrain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REFRA'IN, verb transitive
[Latin refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein. See Rein.]
- “My son - refrain thy foot from their path” Proverbs 1:15“Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by” Genesis 45:1
All definitions and other forms of “refrain”
REFRA'IN, verb intransitive
To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.
- “Refrain from these men and let them alone” Acts 5:38
REFRA'IN, noun
The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.