Strong's #3381: mepos (pronounced may'-pos)

or me-pos may-poce from 3361 and 4458; lest somehow:--lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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mēpōs / mē pōs

1) lest, lest somehow, that perhaps

Part of Speech: conjunction

Relation: from G3361 and G4458

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Acts 27:29: "Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast"
Romans 11:21: "the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee."
1 Corinthians 8:9: "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock"
1 Corinthians 9:27: "body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be"
2 Corinthians 2:7: "to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow."
2 Corinthians 9:4: " Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find"
2 Corinthians 11:3: "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve"
2 Corinthians 12:20: "For I fear, lest when I come, I shall not find you such"
2 Corinthians 12:20: "such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,"
Galatians 2:2: "but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run,"
Galatians 4:11: "I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain."
1 Thessalonians 3:5: "I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted"