Bible Dictionary: Perchance

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(adv.) By chance; perhaps; peradventure.

Greek

5177. tugchano -- to hit, hit upon, meet, happen
... secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with); but
in the latter application only impersonal (with ei), ie Perchance; or (present ...
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302. an -- usually untranslatable, but generally denoting ...
... occurs. [Though 302 () is not easily "," it always conveys meaning. (The
sometimes translates as "perchance," "haply."). 302 () is ...
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Library

If Perchance it is not This, are victims not Slain in Sacrifice to ...
... Book VII. 4 If perchance it is not this, are victims not slain in sacrifice
to the gods� If perchance it is not this, [4785] are ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/4 if perchance it is.htm

If any one Perchance Thinks that we are Speaking Wicked Calumnies. ...
... Book V. 26 If any one perchance thinks that we are speaking wicked calumnies�
If any one perchance thinks that we are speaking ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/26 if any one perchance.htm

"But Lest this Should Perchance Seem Incredible to any One...
... "But lest this should perchance seem incredible to any one� "But lest this should
perchance seem incredible to any one, I shall mention still greater things. ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xv but lest this.htm

Canon Lxxxviii. No one May Drive any Beast into a Church Except ...
... The Sixth Ecumenical Council. Canon LXXXVIII. No one may drive any beast
into a church except perchance a traveller� No one may ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon lxxxviii no one may.htm

As to the Words of St. ...
... Peter, knowing his evil heart, might well use words of doubt, and then by some Old
Testament instances it is pointed out that "perchance" does not exclude ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter v as to the.htm

But is it So, as one Remembers Carthage who Hath Seen It? No. ...
... Perchance; for my joy I remember, even when sad, as a happy life, when unhappy;
nor did I ever with bodily sense see, hear, smell, taste, or touch my joy; but ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xxi but is it.htm

Many Evils Before his Commingling with Evil are Attributed to the ...
... Or perchance he did not know that this would happen to his members, that they should
love darkness and become hostile to holy light, as Manichæus says, that is ...
/.../chapter 43 name evils before.htm

St. Ambrose Returns to the Story of the Widow of Sarepta...
... Are they not, perchance, those in which the Lord came to the earth and could not
find fruit on the fig-tree, according to that which is written: "Behold, there ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter iii st ambrose returns.htm

Epistle xv. To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna.
... But if perchance any matter of dispute should arise between the Church of Ravenna
and the aforesaid monastery, and it cannot be settled amicably, let it be ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle xv to marinianus bishop.htm

The Manichæans Inquire Whence is Evil and by this Question Think ...
... Here perchance some one may say: Whence are sins themselves, and whence is evil
in general? If from man, whence is man? if from an angel, whence is the angel? ...
/.../chapter 8 name manichaeans inquire.htm

Thesaurus

Perchance (5 Occurrences)
...Perchance (5 Occurrences). ... 1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall
tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?" (WEB JPS ASV). ...
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Perch (2 Occurrences)

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Uncertainty (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure the
uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith, lest perchance the Tempter ...
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Listen (441 Occurrences)
... Mark 4:12 that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not
understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'" (WEY). ...
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Roughly (8 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your
father answers you roughly?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV). ...
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Rough (24 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your
father answers you roughly?" (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV). ...
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Perched (1 Occurrence)

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Pardoned (21 Occurrences)
... Mark 4:12 that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not
understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'" (WEY). ...
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Perhaps (89 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; possibly.
Multi-Version Concordance Perhaps (89 Occurrences). ...
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Chance (78 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To befall; to happen to. 9. (a.) Happening by chance; casual. 10. (adv.)
By chance; perchance. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHANCE. ...
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Bible Concordance

Perchance (5 Occurrences)

Mark 4:12 that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"
(WEY)

1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure the uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith, lest perchance the Tempter might have tempted you and our labour have been lost.
(WEY)

Leviticus 26:41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
(See JPS)

1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?"
(WEB JPS ASV)

Isaiah 40:19 The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Perchance

Related Terms

Perch (2 Occurrences)

Uncertainty (4 Occurrences)

Listen (441 Occurrences)

Roughly (8 Occurrences)

Rough (24 Occurrences)

Perched (1 Occurrence)

Pardoned (21 Occurrences)