'Restraining' in the Bible

for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Then he washed his face and came out, and, restraining himself, said, “Let the meal be served.”

that this is not to thee for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord -- either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Jehovah hath done good to my lord, and thou hast remembered thy handmaid.'

Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples.

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips is wise.

[In] restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.

I defer my anger for my name's sake, and as my first act I'm restraining it for you, so as not to cut you off.

But I am full of the wrath (judgment) of the Lord;I am tired of restraining it.“[I will] pour it out on the children in the streetAnd on the young men gathered together;For both the husband and wife shall be taken,The aged and the very old [though full of days they are not exempt from judgment].

Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it.

And you know what restrains him now [from being revealed]; it is so that he will be revealed at his own [appointed] time.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way,

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.