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# haply

«haply» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Perhaps; by chance** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Perhaps; by chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haply/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: An old word used where we would say "perhaps" or "if it happened."

### examples

- How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?' (Prophets 1SA.14.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haply/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haply» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haply/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
