forbear

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.