Discovery Box| (1.00) | (Jdg 14:15) | 3 tn Heb “lest.” |
| (1.00) | (Deu 32:27) | 2 tn Heb “lest.” |
| (1.00) | (Num 16:34) | 3 tn Heb “lest.” |
| (1.00) | (Gen 19:19) | 6 tn Heb “lest.” |
| (0.70) | (Eph 2:9) | 2 tn Grk “lest anyone should boast.” |
| (0.70) | (2Co 11:3) | 1 tn Grk “I fear lest somehow.” |
| (0.70) | (Luk 16:28) | 2 tn Grk “lest they also come.” |
| (0.60) | (Jos 24:27) | 2 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.” |
| (0.50) | (Jer 6:8) | 2 tn Heb “lest my soul [= I] becomes disgusted with you.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 59:11) | 1 tn Heb “do not kill them, lest my people forget.” |
| (0.50) | (Psa 28:1) | 4 tn Heb “lest [if] you are silent from me.” |
| (0.50) | (Exo 1:10) | 5 tn Heb “and [lest] he [Israel] also be joined to.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 32:11) | 4 tn Heb “for I am afraid of him, lest he come.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 31:31) | 3 tn Heb “lest you steal your daughters from with me.” |
| (0.49) | (Gen 44:34) | 1 tn The Hebrew text has “lest I see,” which expresses a negative purpose—“I cannot go up lest I see.” |
| (0.40) | (Isa 27:3) | 3 tn Heb “lest [someone] visit [harm] upon it, night and day I guard it.” |
| (0.40) | (Ecc 7:21) | 2 tn Heb “so that you do not hear…”; or “lest you hear….” |
| (0.40) | (Deu 18:16) | 1 tn The Hebrew text uses the collective singular in this verse: “my God…lest I die.” |
| (0.35) | (Luk 14:29) | 1 tn Grk “to complete it, lest.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation and ἵνα μήποτε (hina mēpote, “lest”) has been translated as “Otherwise.” |
| (0.35) | (Pro 9:8) | 2 tn Heb “lest he hate you.” The particle פֶּן (pen, “lest”) expresses fear or precaution (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 79, §476). The antonyms “love” and “hate” suggest that the latter means “reject” and the former means “choosing and embracing.” |
