e marks alternatives, linking words, actions, or questions as options in the biblical clauses where it occurs.

As a conjunction, it links alternatives within lists and paired expressions, and it also introduces alternative questions or clauses, as the surrounding statements show.

1. Conjunction marking alternatives · dominant

   The supplied morphology identifies each form as a conjunction. In 1 Corinthians 4:21 it joins the alternatives of coming “with a rod” or “with love and a spirit of gentleness”; in 1 Corinthians 14:36 the APB renders two alternative questions, “did the word of God go out from you” or “did it come to you alone?” It also links alternatives inside lists, as in 1 Corinthians 5:11 and 1 Peter 4:15.

   1 Corinthians 4:211 Corinthians 14:361 Corinthians 5:111 Peter 4:151 Corinthians 11:271 Peter 1:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly shows the alternatives with “or,” including paired questions and list items, though it is a whole-verse translation and may absorb the conjunction into the English phrasing.