9 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Genesis 43:31

And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

Job 29:9

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

Psalms 40:9

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Psalms 119:101

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

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 and devour at once.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)

3 Maccabees 3:18

they were so carried away by their old arrogance as to forbid us the entrance, while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.

OT Pseudepigrapha

Testament of Joseph 2:6

And I did not raise myself against them with evil intent, but I honoured my brethren; and out of respect for them, even when I was being sold, I refrained from telling the Ishmaelites that I was a son of Jacob, a great man and a mighty.