Adventure
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to give," is once used of giving oneself to go into a place, "to adventure" into, Acts 19:31 , of Paul's thought of going into the midst of the mob in the theater at Ephesus. See Bestow , Commit , Deliver , Give.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) Risk; danger; peril.
(2): (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
(3): (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
(4): (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
(5): (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
(6): (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
(7): (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk.
(8): (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
King James Dictionary [3]
ADVENT'URE, n. See Advent.
1. Hazard risk chance that of which one has no direction as, at all adventures, that is, at all hazards. See Venture. 2. An enterprize of hazard a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events. 3. That which is put to hazard a sense in popular use with seamen, and usually pronounced venture. Something which a seaman is permitted to carry abroad, with a view to sell for profit.
A bill of adventure, is a writing signed by a person, who takes goods on board of his ship, wholly at the risk of the owner.
ADVENT'URE, To risk, or hazard to put in the power of unforeseen events as, to adventure one's life. See Venture.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ad ven´t̬ū̇r Judges 9:17 Deuteronomy 28:56 Ecclesiastes 5:14 δίδωμι dı́dōmı̄ Acts 19:31
