to bear with someone or something: to put up with, tolerate, or endure patiently instead of reacting against it
At its root this verb pictures holding yourself up against something rather than striking back at it. When a person tries your patience or a hardship presses on you, to bear with it is to stay put under it and not retaliate, reject it, or give up. English almost always needs a small phrase to carry it: "bear with," "put up with," "endure," or "tolerate."
Two everyday shades run through its uses. Most often it describes forbearance toward people, bearing with their faults, their foolish talk, even their mistreatment, as when Paul asks the Corinthians to "bear with" him, or when believers are told to be "bearing with one another in love." Less often it describes holding up under hard circumstances, such as the persecution a believer endures.
The tone is not grim resignation but active, often loving restraint. In Ephesians and Colossians it stands beside humility and forgiveness as something Christians deliberately do for one another. It is close to steadfast endurance (ὑπομένω) and to patient long-suffering (μακροθυμέω), but its own emphasis falls on tolerating the person or the affront in front of you.