16 occurrences in 4 translations

'Peradventure' in the Bible

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Verse ConceptsFiftiesDestruction Of CitiesNot SparingNumbers Of Righteous People

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

Verse ConceptsFortiesNumbers Of Righteous People

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

Verse ConceptsTwentyNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

Verse ConceptsReturning to the oldPeople Unwilling

And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Are Liars

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other PeopleFear Of Individuals

And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

Verse ConceptsHonestyMistakesDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Bible Theasaurus

Maybe (21 instances)
Peradventure (35 instances)
Perchance (3 instances)
Perhaps (112 instances)
Possibly (36 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלי אוּלי 
'uwlay 
Usage: 45

לוּ לא לוּא 
Luw' 
if , would God , O that , Oh , would it might be , if haply , peradventure , Oh that , pray thee , Though , would
Usage: 22

פּן 
Pen 
Usage: 132

μήποτε μήποτε 
mepote 
lest , lest at any time , whether or not , lest haply , if peradventure , no ... not at all , not tr
Usage: 12

τάχα 
Tacha 
Usage: 2

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