Hardly

Usually translated “difficulty”, “hardly” and “rarely”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• with difficulty 4
• hardly 1
• rarely 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 4
• Romans 1
• 1 Peter 1

3 books in all.

• Hardly talking (mogilalos)
• Hardly (mogis)

• Acts 27:7And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
• Acts 27:8And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
• Acts 27:16And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
• Romans 5:7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
• 1 Peter 4:18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “hardly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.