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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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96 occurrences95 verses29 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 12:23

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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.
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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.
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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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