31 occurrences

'Suffer' in the Bible

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentPassing OverPassing ThroughThe DestroyerBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of ConstructionsAngel Of DeathFamily Death

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingMineralsOfferingsSaltSournessTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiMeat offerings

Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltI Am The LordMaking People Holy

And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and Judah

And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSmitingThose God Gave Into Their HandsEnemy Attacks

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

Verse ConceptsTaking By The Hand

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodHairsHairs ProtectedMan Avenging

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

Verse ConceptsFortressesSealing ThingsPeople Attacking Their Own

And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Examples OfDifferent TeachingsBreaking Man's LawThe Law Given To Israel

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Verse ConceptsHaving No BreathBitternessCompetitionbreathingrelaxation

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Verse ConceptsMockery

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Verse ConceptsCrushingOilWinepressTreading Grapescrushes

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

Verse ConceptsBe Patient!Being PatientWaiting For God's Timing

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringGatesMercifulnessGates Of DeathNot DyingDeath PreventedPeople Being HatedDeath Of Loved One

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathTreatment From YouthDespairdistractionsteenager

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalBetrayal, God Never WillLovingkindnessGod Shows His Lovingkindness

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsProverbsRighteous, TheStomachsPlenty Through GodThe SoulRejectionA Good ManFeeding The Poorhunger

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Verse ConceptsAnger ManagementQuick TemperedPunishmentPunishmentsconsequences

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingMistakesGod Angry With IndividualsErrorGuiltMaking MistakesSpeechjoking

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Verse ConceptsHard LaborWakefulnessMore Than EnoughHard WorkWorryingSleeping Peacefullyworkinghardworkworries

Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBarbersHeadsPriests, Function In Ot TimesShavingLong HairCutting HairHair

Bible Theasaurus

Ache (1 instance)
Brook (79 instances)
Digest (1 instance)
Stomach (57 instances)
Suffer (240 instances)
Sustain (46 instances)
Tolerate (15 instances)

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