FORBEAR, v.i. 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? 1Kings 22.4. To refuse; to decline.Whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. Ezek. 2. 5. To be patient; to restrain from action or violence. Prov. 25:15.FORBEAR, v.t. 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? 1Cor. 9.3. To spare; to treat with indulgence and patience.Forbearing one another in love. Eph. 4.4. To withhold.Forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 2Chron. 35.
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