'Howbeit' in the Bible
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit the people magnified them;
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Howbeit Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart thither'shortly.
Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.
Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.