Strong's #4722: stego (pronounced steg'-o)

from 4721; to roof over, i.e. (figuratively) to cover with silence (endure patiently):--(for-)bear, suffer.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stegō

1) deck, thatch, to cover

1a) to protect or keep by covering, to preserve

2) to cover over with silence

2a) to keep secret

2b) to hide, conceal

2b1) of the errors and faults of others

3) by covering to keep off something which threatens, to bear up against, hold out against, and so endure, bear, forbear

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4721

Citing in TDNT: 7:585, 1073

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

1 Corinthians 9:12: "this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder"
1 Corinthians 13:7: " Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
1 Thessalonians 3:1: "Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;"
1 Thessalonians 3:5: "For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your"