'Permits' in the Bible

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, “The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange.”

But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

And this we will do, if God permits.