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Strong’s G1439 · Greek

ἐάω

eáō · eh-ah'-o

Origin of uncertain affinity;

Meaning to let be, i.e. permit or leave alone

In the King James Version commit, leave, let (alone), suffer. See also ἔα (G1436).

In 13 verses of the King James Version

  1. Matthew 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
  2. Luke 4:41And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.
  3. Luke 22:51And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
  4. Acts 5:38And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
  5. Acts 14:16Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
  6. Acts 16:7After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.
  7. Acts 19:30And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
  8. Acts 23:32On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
  9. Acts 27:32Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
  10. Acts 27:40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
  11. Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
  12. 1 Corinthians 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
  13. Revelation 2:20Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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