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1.
(
# 1
, 1640) serves as a comparative degree of
, “little” (see
LEAST
), and denotes “less” in (a) quality, as of wine, John 2:10, “worse;” (b) age, Rom.
9:12, “younger”; 1 Tim. 5:9, “under” neuter, adverbially); (c) rank, Heb. 7:7. See
UNDER
,
WORSE
,
YOUNG
.¶
2.
(
$
, 3398), the comparative of
, is translated “less” in Matt.
13:32,
RV
(
KJV
, “least”), and Mark 4:31. See
LEAST
.
3.
(
J
, 2276), “inferior,” is used in the neuter adverbially in 2 Cor. 12:15,
“the less.” See
WORSE
.
LEST
1. (
)
, 3361), a negative particle, often used as a conjunction, is frequently
translated “lest,” e.g., Mark 13:36 (in v. 5,
RV
, “that no,” for
KJV
, “lest”); Acts 13:40;
23:10.
2.
, “in order that not,” is rendered “lest,” e.g., in Matt. 17:27; in some
instances the
RV
renders the phrase “that … not,” e.g., Luke 8:12, or “that … no,” 1 Cor.
9:12 (
KJV
, “lest”).
3.
or
(
)
, 3379) denotes “lest ever, lest perhaps, lest at any
time,” e.g., Matt. 4:6; “lest haply,” Matt. 7:6,
RV
(
KJV
, “lest”), and in 13:15 (
KJV
, “lest at
any time”); in 25:9,
RV
, “peradventure” (
KJV
, “lest”). The
RV
does not translate this
simply by “lest,” as in the
KJV
; see further, e.g., in Matt. 27:64; Mark 14:2; Luke 12:58;
the addition of
requires the fuller rendering.
Note:
In Luke 14:29, the conjunctive phrase
, “lest haply,” is used.
4.
, or
(
)
, 3381), used as a conjunction, denotes “lest somehow,
lest haply, lest by any means,” e.g., 2 Cor. 2:7,
RV
, “lest by any means” (
KJV
, “lest
perhaps”); so 12:20 (twice) and Gal. 4:11 (
KJV
, “lest”); in 1 Thess. 3:5 (
KJV
, “lest by
some means”).
5.
$
, or
$
(
)
, 3361) and (
)
, 4225), “lest perhaps,” is used in Acts 27:29,
RV
, “lest haply” (
KJV
, “lest”).
Note:
In 2 Cor. 4:4,
KJV
, the phrase
(“unto”) (“the”) (“not”), i.e., “in order
that … not,” is rendered “lest (the light) … should”;
RV
, “that (the light) … should not.”
LET (alone, go)
1.
(
&
, 863), for the meanings of which see
LEAVE
, No. 1, frequently
denotes “to let, suffer, permit,” e.g., Matt. 5:40 (translated “let … have”); 7:4; 13:30;
15:14; 27:49 and Mark 15:36,
RV
, “let be,” probably short for “let us see” (Moulton and
Milligan,
F !
); Mark 7:27; 11:6 (“let … go”); 14:6 (“let … alone”); so Luke 13:8;
John 11:48; in Acts 5:38 (where some mss. have
, “to permit, let, suffer”); in John
11:44 and 18:8 (“let”); 1 Cor. 7:11, 12,
RV
, “let … leave,”
KJV
, “let … put away”; 7:13
(“let … leave”).
2.
(
# $!
, 2010), for the meanings of which see
LEAVE
(b), is translated
“let (me)” in Luke 9:61,
KJV
,
RV
, “suffer (me).”