Forbear
King James Dictionary [1]
FORBEAR, pret. forbore pp. forborne.
1. To stop to cease to hold from proceeding as, forbear to repeat these reproachful words. 2. To pause to delay as, forbear a while. 3. To abstain to omit to hold one's self from motion or entering on an affair.
Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? 1 Kings 22 .
4. To refuse to decline.
Whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Ezekiel 2 .
5. To be patient to restrain from action or violence. Proverbs 25:15 .
FORBEAR,
1. To avoid voluntarily to decline.
Forbear his presence.
2. To abstain from to omit to avoid doing. Learn from the scriptures what you ought to do and what to forbear.
Have we not power to forbear working? 1 Corinthians 9 .
3. To spare to treat with indulgence and patience.
Forbearing one another in love. Ephesians 4 .
4. To withhold.
Forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 2 Chronicles 35 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) An ancestor; a forefather; - usually in the plural.
(2): ( v. t.) To cease from bearing.
(3): ( v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
(4): ( v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
(5): ( v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
(6): ( v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
(7): ( v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
for - bâr ´ (חדל , ḥādhal ; ἀνέχομαι , anéchomai ): In the Old Testament ḥādhal , "to leave off," is the word most frequently translated "forbear" ( Exodus 23:5 , etc.); dāmam , "to be silent," ḥāsakh , "to keep back," māshakh , "to draw or stretch out," occur once each; the Revised Version (British and American) renders Ezekiel 24:17 ( dāmam ), "Sigh, but not aloud," margin "Hebrew be silent,"; Proverbs 24:11 ( ḥāsakh ), "See that thou hold back," margin " or forbear thou not to deliver," the King James Version "if thou forbear to deliver"; Nehemiah 9:30 ( māshakh ), "bear" instead of "forbear"; 'aph literally, "breathing," the "nose," hence, from violent breathing, "anger" (ה , 'erekh , "long," understood), and kūl "to hold," are translated "forbearing" ( Proverbs 25:15; Jeremiah 20:9 , respectively).
In the New Testament we have anechomai , "to hold self back or up," "with longsuffering, forbearing one another" ( Ephesians 4:2 ,; Colossians 3:13 ); anı́ēmi "to send back," the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "forbear threatening" ( Ephesians 6:9 ); pheı́domai , "to spare," "but I forbear" ( 2 Corinthians 12:6 ); mḗergázesthai , "not to work," "to forbear working" ( 1 Corinthians 9:6 ); stégō , "to cover," "conceal": "when I could no longer forbear" ( 1 Thessalonians 3:1 , 1 Thessalonians 3:5 ).
