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Suffer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient. We suffer with pain, sickness or sorrow. We suffer with anxiety. We suffer by evils past and by anticipating others to come. We suffer from fear and from disappointed hopes.

2. To undergo, as punishment.

3. The father was first condemned to suffer on a day appointed, and the son afterwards, the day following.

4. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. A building suffers for want of seasonable repairs. It is just that we should suffer for neglect of duty.

5. Public business suffers by private infirmities.

Suffer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To feel or bear what is painful, disagreeable or distressing, either to the body or mind; to undergo. We suffer pain of body; we suffer grief of mind. The criminal suffers punishment; the sinner suffers the pangs of conscience in this life, and is condemned to suffer the wrath of an offended God. We often suffer wrong; we suffer abuse; we suffer injustice.

2. To endure; to support; to sustain; not to sink under.

3. Our spirit and strength entire,

4. Strongly to suffer and support our pains.

5. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder. Will you suffer yourself to be insulted?

6. I suffer them to enter and possess.

7. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. Lex.19.

8. To undergo; to be affected by. Substances suffer an entire change by the action of fire, or by entering into new combinations.

9. To sustain; to be affected by; as, to suffer loss or damage.

Suffer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; to bear what is inconvenient; as, we suffer from pain, sickness, or sorrow; we suffer with anxiety.

2. To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death.

3. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

Suffer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

2. To endure or undergo without sinking; to support; to sustain; to bear up under.

3. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a change when long exposed to air and moisture; to suffer loss or damage.

4. To allow; to permit; not to forbid or hinder; to tolerate.

Sufferable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be tolerated or permitted; allowable.

2. That may be endured or borne.

Sufferable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Able to suffer or endure; patient.

2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.

Sufferably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tolerably; so as to be endured.

Sufferance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The bearing of pain; endurance; pain endured; misery.

2. He must not only die,

3. But thy unkindness shall the death draw out

4. To ling'ring sufferance

5. Patience; moderation; a bearing with patience.

6. But hasty heat temp'ring with sufferance wise.

7. Toleration; permission; allowance; negative consent by not forbidding or hindering.

8. In process of time, sometimes by sufferance sometimes by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.

9. In their beginning, they are weak and wan,

10. But soon through sufferance grow to fearful end.

11. An estate at sufferance in law, is where a person comes into possession of land by lawful title, but keeps it after the title ceases, without positive leave of the owner.

Sufferance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.

2. Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.

3. Loss; damage; injury.

4. Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation.

5. Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.

6. A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods.

Suffered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Borne; undergone; permitted; allowed.

Suffered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sufferer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or mind; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as suffers by poverty or sickness. Men are sufferers by fire or losses at sea; they are sufferers by the ravages of an enemy; still more are they sufferers by their own vices and follies.

2. One that permits or allows.

Sufferer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

2. One who permits or allows.

Suffering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred; as sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

Suffering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bearing; undergoing pain, inconvenience or damage; permitting; allowing.

Suffering [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Suffering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

Suffering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 20:6

And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 31:7

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

Genesis 31:28

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

Exodus 3:7

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

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.

When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

Exodus 22:18

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

You must not allow a sorceress to live.

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.

And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

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.

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

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.

by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”

Numbers 5:24

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

Numbers 5:27

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

Numbers 14:33

And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Numbers 16:29

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

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.

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Deuteronomy 8:3

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 18:14

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

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.

But you, do not stop there. Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”

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:

The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

Judges 3:28

And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

“Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

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.

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.