What Does “Suffer (to allow)” Mean in the Bible?
To agree to what someone asks, even when it is not one’s place or one does not want to. In old Bibles, to “suffer” someone often means to let them.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 3:15; Genesis 16:2
What the Bible says
Matthew 3:15
And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.
Genesis 16:2
She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “suffer”