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# haply

adverb

«haply» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

An old word used where we would say "perhaps" or "if it happened."

### Meaning

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haply/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «haply» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haply/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«haply» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/haply.html) on Mova free.