chance If a bird's nest {chance} to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: chance <1SA6 -9> And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it [was] a {chance} [that] happened to us. chance <2SA1 -6> And the young man that told him said, As I happened by {chance} upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. chance I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and {chance} happeneth to them all. chance And by {chance} there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. chance <1CO15 -37> And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may {chance} of wheat, or of some other grain]: ~~~~~~