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Words
ποτέ G4218
- Home gloss
- ever; perhaps (μή ποτε)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- peradventure / perhaps / perhaps
- Note
- Split by construction: μή ποτε is "perhaps" with a fear or doubt (24:5, 39), "lest" with a purpose (3:22)
- Rulings
- 2, 20
Occurrences (6)
- 24:5 Now the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman is not minded to go with me back to this land; shall I turn back your son to the land from which you went out?"
- 24:39 Now I said to my lord, 'Perhaps the woman will not go with me.'
- 26:7 Now the men of the place questioned about Rebekah his woman, and he said that "She is my sister." For he feared to say that "She is my woman"—lest the men of the place kill him over Rebekah, for she was lovely in appearance.
- 26:9 Now Abimelech called Isaac and said to him, "Then she is even your woman! Why is it that you said, 'She is my sister'?" Now Isaac said to him, "For I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- 27:12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be before him like one despising, and I shall bring on myself a curse and not a blessing."
- 27:45 until the fury and the wrath of your brother turn back from you, and he forgets what you have done to him; and, having sent, I will send for you from there; lest ever I be made childless of the two of you in one day."