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suffer

Meaning of “suffer”

1. To permit, allow, let, or tolerate. 2. To endure, bear, experience, undergo, or be subjected to something.

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First occurrence: Exodus 12:23

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Exodus 12:23
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Exodus 12:23 · retained source text

For the LORD wil passe through to smite the Egyptians: and when hee seeth the blood vpon the lintel, and on the two side-postes, the LORD will passe ouer the doore, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in vnto your houses to smite you.

Leviticus 2:13
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 2:13 · retained source text

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

1611 marginal noteMarke 9.49.

Leviticus 19:17
¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Leviticus 19:17 · retained source text

¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sinne vpon him.

1611 marginal noteOr, that thou beare not sinne for him.

1611 marginal note1.Ioh. 2.11. mat. 8.5 ecclu. 19.13.

Leviticus 22:16
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 22:16 · retained source text

Or suffer them to beare the iniquitie of trespasse, when they eate their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctifie them.

1611 marginal noteOr, lade themselues with the iniquity of trespasse in their eating.

Numbers 21:23
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 21:23 · retained source text

And Sihon would not suffer Israel to passe thorow his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wildernes: and he came to Iahaz, and fought against Israel.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 29.7.

Joshua 10:19
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joshua 10:19 · retained source text

And stay you 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 deliuered them into your hand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off the taile.

Judges 1:34
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
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1611 witness · Judges 1:34 · retained source text

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountaine: for they would not suffer them to come downe to the valley.

Judges 15:1
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 15:1 · retained source text

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

Judges 16:26
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Judges 16:26 · retained source text

And Samson said vnto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer mee, that I may feele the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may leane vpon them.

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