KJV dictionary & concordance
To hold up, support, maintain, nourish, bear, or endure without failing.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Kings 17:9
Complete exact-word concordance
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I haue commaunded a widow woman there to sustaine thee.
1611 marginal noteLuke 4.26. called Sarepta.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Yea fourtie yeeres diddest thou sustaine them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes wared not old, and their feet swelled not.
1611 marginal noteDeut. 8.4.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Cast thy burden vpon the LORD, and he shall sustaine thee: hee shall neuer suffer the righteous to bee moued.
1611 marginal noteOr, gift.
1611 marginal notePsal.37.8 mat.6.25. luk. 12.22. 1.pet.5.7.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
The spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmitie: but a wounded spirit who can beare?
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