Dictionaries :: Peradventure

King James Dictionary

Peradventure: Perhaps.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God PERADVENTURE will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; (2 Timothy 2:24-25)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Peradventure:

primarily "quickly" (from tachus, "quick"), signifies "peradventure" in Rom 5:7; in Phm 1:15, "perhaps."
See PERHAPS.

Peradventure:

often written as two words, usually signifies "lest ever, lest haply, haply;" in indirect questions, "if haply" or "whether haply," e.g., Luk 3:15, RV; in Mat 25:9, RV, "peradventure" (AV, "lest"); "if peradventure," in 2Ti 2:25.
See HAPLY.