{"id":62609,"date":"2022-09-29T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/lest\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:05:25","slug":"lest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/lest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lest<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> a negative particle, often used as a conjunction, is frequently translated &#8220;lest,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mar 13:36<\/span> (in <span class='bible'>Mar 13:5<\/span>, RV, &#8220;that no,&#8221; for AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;); <span class='bible'>Act 13:40<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 23:10<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;in order that not,&#8221; is rendered &#8220;lest,&#8221; e.g., in <span class='bible'>Mat 17:27<\/span>; in some instances the RV renders the phrase &#8220;that &#8230; not,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 8:12<\/span>, or &#8220;that &#8230; no,&#8221; <span class='bible'>1Co 9:12<\/span> (AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p>  denotes &#8220;lest ever, lest perhaps, lest at any time,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 4:6<\/span>; &#8220;lest haply,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mat 7:6<\/span>, RV (AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;), and in <span class='bible'>Mat 13:15<\/span> (AV, &#8220;lest at any time&#8221;); in <span class='bible'>Mat 25:9<\/span>, RV, &#8220;peradventure&#8221; (AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;). The RV does not translate this simply by &#8220;lest,&#8221; as in the AV; see further, e.g., in <span class='bible'>Mat 27:64<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 14:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 12:58<\/span>; the addition of pote requires the fuller rendering. <\/p>\n<p> Note: In <span class='bible'>Luk 14:29<\/span>, the conjunctive phrase hina mepote, &#8220;lest haply,&#8221; is used. <\/p>\n<p>  used as a conjunction, denotes &#8220;lest somehow, lest haply, lest by any means,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>2Co 2:7<\/span>, RV, &#8220;lest by any means&#8221; (AV, &#8220;lest perhaps&#8221;); so <span class='bible'>2Co 12:20<\/span> (twice); <span class='bible'>Gal 4:11<\/span> (AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;); in <span class='bible'>1Th 3:5<\/span> (AV, &#8220;lest by some means&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;lest perhaps,&#8221; is used in <span class='bible'>Act 27:29<\/span>, RV, &#8220;lest haply&#8221; (AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;). <\/p>\n<p> Note: In <span class='bible'>2Co 4:4<\/span>, AV, the phrase eis (&#8220;unto&#8221;) to (&#8220;the&#8221;) me (&#8220;not&#8221;), i.e., &#8220;in order that &#8230; not,&#8221; is rendered &#8220;lest (the light) &#8230; should;&#8221; RV, &#8220;that (the light) &#8230; should not.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest a negative particle, often used as a conjunction, is frequently translated &#8220;lest,&#8221; e.g., Mar 13:36 (in Mar 13:5, RV, &#8220;that no,&#8221; for AV, &#8220;lest&#8221;); Act 13:40; Act 23:10. &#8220;in order that not,&#8221; is rendered &#8220;lest,&#8221; e.g., in Mat 17:27; in some instances the RV renders the phrase &#8220;that &#8230; not,&#8221; e.g., Luk 8:12, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/lest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}