What Does “Peradventure” Mean in the Bible?
“Peradventure” means “perhaps,” or “could it be that…?” It is used to ask a question.
Today
Old Bibles ask with words like these: “Is not this the carpenter’s son?” That is: “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?”
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 13:55; John 4:12
What the Bible says
Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:
John 4:12
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “ventura”