Peradventure

Peradventure

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

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.

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words