alisgema denotes a defiling matter from which the addressees are told to abstain.

The attested use identifies defiling matters as objects of abstention in a directive that also names sexual immorality, what has been strangled, and blood.

1. Defiling matters to be avoided · dominant

   In Acts 15:20, the genitive plural form occurs in the instruction to abstain; the APB renders the clause "to abstain from the things polluted by idols."

   Acts 15:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 15:20, the APB presents the clause as abstaining from "the things polluted by idols." That wording identifies the clause's overall presentation rather than a precise one-to-one rendering.