'Rather' in the Bible

and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had rather got worse,

And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd that he might rather release Barabbas to them.