Forbid, Hinder, Prevent,
Resist, Suffer, Stay, Withstand

Forbid

Hebrew:    kala – to restrain, shut up

tsavah – to set up, command, lay a charge

lo – not

Greek:      koluo – to cut short, restrain

akolutos – uncut off, unrestrained

diaakoluo – to cut short, throughly, restrain, hinder altogether, utterly restrain

Hinder

Hebrew:   achar - to hinder, delay

shasak - to keep back, withhold, darken

mana - to withhold, keep back

shub - to cause to go back

betel - to cease, cause to cease

Greek:     anakopto - to cut up, or cut back

didomi - to give an interruption

egkopto - to cut in, interruption

ekkopto - to cut off

kaluo - to hinder

Prevent

Hebrew:   qadam - to be, go, come, or put before

Resist

Hebrew:   satan - to oppose, accuse, hate

Greek:     anthistemi - to set over against

antitasso – to set down over against, arrange in battle against

antipipto – to fall over against

antika – to set down over against, to stand firm against

Stay

Hebrew:   shasa – to cleave, rend, subdue

atsar – to be restrained

Suffer

Hebrew:   yakol – to be able, to permit

nuach – to give rest, peace, let alone

katha – to wait, to compass

natash – to spread out, leave

nasa – to lift up

nathan – to give

Greek:     anechomai – to hold up

aphiemi – to send away, let go, permit,

didomi – to give

eao – to permit, suffer, let fall

epitrepo – to turn over on, commit to

proseao – to permit, let

stego – to cover, endure, sustain

hupecho – to hold up under

Withstand

Hebrew    satan – one opposing, an opponent

yatsab – to set up self, withstand

Greek      anthistemi - to set or place against

koluo – to hinder, withhold, forbid


 

Old Testament

  1. Genesis 24:55-56 “And her (Rebekah) brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. And he said, Hinder (achar) me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away unto my master.”

  2. Genesis 31:7 “And your (Rachel & Leah) father (Labon) hath deceived me(Jacob), and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered (nathan) him not to hurt me.”

  3. 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 (nathan) the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.”

  4. Leviticus 5:17 “And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden (kala) to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.”

  5. Leviticus 19:17 “Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer (nasa) sin upon him.”

  6. Numbers 11:27-29 “And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid (kala) them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would god that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them!”

  7. Numbers 16:48, 50 “And he(Aaron) stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed (shaan). And aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed (atsar).”

  8. Numbers 22:32 “And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand (satan) thee, because thy way is perverse before me: And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.”

  9. Numbers 25:8 “And he(Phinehas) went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly, So the plague was stayed (atsar) from the children of Israel.”

  10. Deuteronomy 2:36-37 “From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us: Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbade (tsavah) us.”

  11. Deuteronomy 4:23 “Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of anything, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden (tsavah) thee.

  12. 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 (nathan) thee so to do.”

  13. Joshua 10:19 “And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer (nathan) them not to enter into their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand.”

  14. Judges 1:34 “And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer (nathan) them to come down to the valley:”

  15. I Samuel 24:7 “So David stayed (shasa=to cleave, rend, subdue) his servants with these words, and suffered(nathan) them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.”

  16. II Samuel 22:6-7, 18-19 “The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented (qadam)me; In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: and he did her my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented (qadam) me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.”

  17. II Samuel 24:21, 25 “And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed (atsar) from the people. And David built thee an alter unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed (atsar) from Israel.”

  18. I Kings 15:17 “And Basha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer (Nathan) any to go out or come in to Asa King of Judah.”

  19. I Chronicles 21:22 “Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed (atsar) from the people.”

  20. II Chronicles 20:6 “(Jehoshaphat)And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? And rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that non is able to withstand (yatsab)thee?”

  21. Ezra 6:8 “Moreover I(Cyrus) make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house o God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered (betel).”

  22. Job 30:27 “My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented (qadam) me.”

  23. Psalm 18:5, 17-18 “The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented (qadam) me. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented (quadam) me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. ”

  24. Psalm 55:22 “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer (nathan) the righteous to be moved.”

  25. Psalm 66:8-10 “O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth (nathan) not our feet to be moved. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver tried.”

  26. Psalm 79:8 “O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent (qadam) us: for we are brought very low.”

  27. Psalm 101:5 “Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath an hight look and a proud heart will not I suffer (yakol).

  28. Psalm 105:14 “He suffered(nuach) no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.”

  29. Psalm 106:30 “Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed (atsar).”

  30. Psalm 121:3 “He will not suffer (nathan) thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.”

  31. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 “When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou has vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer (nathan) not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands.”

  32. Isaiah 14:5-7 “The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindered (chasak).”

  33. Ezekiel 31:15 “Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed (kala): and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.”

  34. Job 9:10-11 “Lo, he(God)goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder (shub) him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?”

  35. Nehemiah 4:7-8 “But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were mad up, and the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder (toah) it.”

  36. Zechariah 3:1 “He shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist (satan) him.”


 

New Testament

  1. Matthew 3:13-15 “John Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade (diakoluo=to cut short, thoroughly, restrain, hinder altogether, utterly prohibit) him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer (aphiemi=to send away, let go, permit) it to be so now: for thus it becometh(prepo=it is proper) us to fulfill(pleroo=to fill, make full) all righteousness (dikaiosune=righteous, justice). Then he suffered (aphiemi) him.”

  2. Matthew 19:14 “But Jesus said, Suffer (aphiemi) little children, and forbid (kuluo=to cut short, restrain) them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

  3. Mark 1:34 “And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and suffered (aphiemi) not the demons to speak, because they knew him.”

  4. Mark 5:19 “Howbeit Jesus suffered (aphiemi) him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.”

  5. Mark 5:37 “And he suffered (aphiemi) no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.”

  6. Mark 10:14 “But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer(aphiemi)the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”

  7. Mark 11:15-17 “And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer (aphiemi) that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying, unto them, is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves.”

  8. Luke 4:41 “And demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered (eao) them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ:”

  9. Luke 8:32 “And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered (etiprepo) them.”

  10. Luke 8:51 “And when he came into the house, he suffered (aphiemi) no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.”

  11. Luke 11:52 “Woe unto you, lawyers! For ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered (koluo).”

  12. Luke 11:39 “And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered (aphiemi) his house to be broken through.”

  13. Luke 18:16 “But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer (aphiemi) little children to come unto me, and forbid (kolu) them not for of such is the kingdom of God.”

  14. Luke 21:15 “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist (anthistemi).”

  15. Luke 22:49-50 “And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And Jesus answered and said, Suffer (eao) ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.

  16. Acts 6:10 “And they were not able to resist (anthistemi) the wisdom and the spirit by which he(Stephen).”

  17. Acts 7:51 “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist (antipipto) the Holy Spirit: as your father did, so do ye.”

  18. Acts 8:36 “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder (koluo) me to be baptized?”

  19. Acts 14:16 “Who in times past suffered (eao) all nations to walk in their own ways.”

  20. Acts 16:6 “Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden (koluo) of the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia.”

  21. Acts 16:7 “After they were come to Mysia, they assayed (peirazo=to make trial; peiraomai=to try or attempt (as in Acts 9:26 “Saul assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.”) to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered (eao) them not.”

  22. Acts 19:30 “And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered (eao) him not.”

  23. Acts 28:16 “And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered (epitrepo) to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.”

  24. Acts 28:30-31 “And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and te4aching those things, which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding (akolutos) him.”

  25. Romans 9:18-20 “Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted (anthistemi)his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”

  26. Romans 13:2 “Whosoever therefore resisteth (antitasso) the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist (anthisemi) shall receive to themselves judgment.”

  27. Romans 15:22 “For which cause also I have been much hindered (egkopto) from coming to you.”

  28. I Corinthians 4:12 “And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer (anechomai) it:”

  29. I Corinthians 9:12 “If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder (didomi) the gospel of Christ.”

  30. I Corinthians 10:13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer (eao) 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.”

  31. Galatians 5:7-8 “Ye did run well; who did hinder(anakopto) you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.”

  32. I Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer (etitrepo) not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

  33. II Timothy 3:8 “Now as Hannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist (anthistemi)the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.”

  34. I Thessalonians 2:14-16 “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding (koluo) us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”

  35. I Thessalonians 2:17-18 “But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered (egkopto) us.”

  36. I Timothy 4:1-3 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a not iron; Forbidding (koluo) to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believer and know the truth.”

  37. Hebrews 12:4 “Ye have not yet resisted (antika)unto blood, striving against sin.”

  38. Hebrews 13:22 “And I beseech you, brethren, suffer (anaechomai) the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.”

  39. James 4:6 “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth (antitasso) the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”

  40. James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist (anthistemi)the devil, and he will flee from you.”

  41. I Peter 3:7 “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered (ekkopto).”

  42. I Peter 5:5 “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject on to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth (antitasso) the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:”

  43. I Peter 5:8-9 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist (anthistemi) stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.”

  44. II Peter 2:15-16 “Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked from his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbade (koluo) the madness of the prophet.”

  45. III John 10 “Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doesth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth (koluo) them that would, and casteth them out of the church.”

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