Definition

not ever; also if (or lest) ever (or perhaps)

Etymology

from G3361 (μή) and G4218 (ποτέ);

Where the KJV renders it

• if peradventure
• lest (at any time
• haply)
• not at all
• whether or not

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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