Limitless Word
μήπωςmḗpōs
GreekG338112 occurrences (KJV)

lest somehow

KJV renders it: lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps)

Where it appears(showing the first 11 of 12)

  • Acts 27:29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
  • Rom 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
  • 1 Cor 8:9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
  • 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
  • 2 Cor 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
  • 2 Cor 9:4so that I won’t by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
  • 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
  • Gal 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
  • Gal 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
  • 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.