Of-habban

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

of-habban

to keep from, hold back, restrain :-- Gif ðú ðæt (letting the people go) git dón nelt and ðæt folc ofhæfst (retines), Ex. 9, 2. [Goth. af-haban.] Cf. of-healdan. of-habban