Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. 2. (n.) Risk; danger; peril. 3. (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. 4. (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. 5. (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. 6. (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. 7. (n.) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. 8. (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ADVENTURE ad-ven'-tur: "To risk," "to dare," referring always to an undertaking attended with some peril (Judges 9:17: "My father adventured his life"). Compare Deuteronomy 28:56. So also Ecclesiastes 5:14: "Riches perish by evil adventure." Only once in New Testament for didomi (Acts 19:31), where Paul's friends beg him "not to adventure himself (archaic for "venture") into theater."

Multi-Version Concordance Adventure (3 Occurrences) Acts 19:31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. (KJV ASV WBS) Deuteronomy 28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, (WEB KJV JPS ASV) Ecclesiastes 5:14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. (ASV JPS)