Threaten, Threatening spread no further … let us straitly threaten them, Acts 4:17. Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, Acts 9:1. forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven, Eph. 6:9. he suffered, he threatened not, 1 Pet. 2:23. the power of God, which threatened them, 1 Ne. 18:20. went forth … with mighty threatenings to destroy his church, Alma 26:18. Nephites were threatened with utter destruction, 3 Ne. 2:13. We had been threatened with being mobbed, JS—H 1:75.