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Strong G3381μήπως

so that

Transliteration
mēpōs mē pōs
Pronunciation
may'-poce may poce
Morphology
Greek Particle - Negative

Definition

From G3361 and G4458; lest somehow: - lest (by any means by some means haply perhaps).

Detailed definition

μήπως
or μή πως (so WH),
negative particle,

1. as conjc., lest haply: in final sentences, 1Co.9:27, 2Co.2:7 9:4; after verbs of fearing or taking heed, 1Co.8:9, 2Co.11:3 12:20, Gal.4:11; with an ellipse of ptcp. (sc. φοβούμενος; cf. B1., § 65, 3; Burton, § 225), 1Th.3:5 (but see infr.).

2. As interrogative, whether haply: Gal.2:2, 1Th.3:5 (cf. M, Th., in l, but see supr.).†
μήπου
(WH, μή που),
lest anywhere, lest haply: Act.27:29.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3381 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • lest6
  • mean5

First verses

  1. Acts 27:29
    Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
  2. Romans 11:21
    For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
  3. 1 Corinthians 8:9
    But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
  4. 1 Corinthians 9:27
    But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
  5. 2 Corinthians 2:7
    So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
  6. 2 Corinthians 9:4
    Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
  7. 2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  8. 2 Corinthians 12:20
    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  9. Galatians 2:2
    And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
  10. Galatians 4:11
    I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
  11. 1 Thessalonians 3:5
    For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
μήπω
or μή πω,
I as adverb not yet, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.431, etc.)]; ἀλλὰ μήπω τοῦτο (i.e. σκοπεῖτε) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.90: in expostulation, μή τώ τι μεθίετε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.234, 17.422, etc.)]; μήπω γε nay, not yet, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 631: followed by πρίν, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.134, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 961, 1409 (_anapaest meter_): with _optative_ precantis, μήπω μανείη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1278; μήπω νοῦ τοσόνδ᾽ εἴην κενή 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 403.)]
II as conjunction, lest yet, κελόμην ἐπιβαινέμεν.., μή πώ τις.. λάθηται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.102 (variant).)]