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Peradventure
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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primarily "quickly" (from tachus, "quick"), signifies "peradventure" in Romans 5:7; in Philemon 1:15 , "perhaps." See PERHAPS.
often written as two words, usually signifies "lest ever, lest haply, haply;" in indirect questions, "if haply" or "whether haply," e.g., Luke 3:15 , RV; in Matthew 25:9 , RV, "peradventure" (AV, "lest"); "if peradventure," in 2 Timothy 2:25 . See HAPLY.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Peradventure'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/p/peradventure.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Peradventure'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/p/peradventure.html. 1940.
