Else - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Else

[ 1,,G1893, epei ]
a conjunction, when used of cause, meaning since," "otherwise," "for then," "because;" in an ellipsis, "else," as in 1 Corinthians 7:14, where the ellipsis would be "if the unbelieving husband were not sanctified in the wife, your children would be unclean;" cp. Romans 11:6, Romans 11:22; 1 Corinthians 5:10; Hebrews 9:26. Sometimes it introduces a question, as in Romans 3:6; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 Corinthians 15:29; Hebrews 10:2. It is translated "else" in 1 Corinthians 14:16 and in the RV in Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 10:2, for AV, "for then."

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words