molis marks an outcome as achieved only with difficulty or as an action unlikely to occur.

The dominant use marks an outcome reached only with difficulty or narrowly achieved: restraint, travel progress, control of a boat, and salvation are all presented under pressure or limitation. In Romans 5:7, it marks the exceptional improbability of dying for a just person.

1. Achieved only with difficulty · dominant

   The adverb qualifies constrained outcomes: in Acts 14:18 the APB renders that the speakers “scarcely restrained” the people; in Acts 27:7, Acts 27:8, and Acts 27:16 it renders difficult progress, arrival, and control of the lifeboat. In 1 Peter 4:18, the APB renders the righteous person as saved “only with difficulty,” placing the outcome in the same difficult-or-narrowly-achieved frame.

   Acts 14:18Acts 27:16Acts 27:7Acts 27:81 Peter 4:18
2. An unlikely act · rare

   In Romans 5:7, the adverb modifies the prospect that someone would die for a just person; the APB renders the clause, “one will hardly die for a just person,” before contrasting the possibility of boldness to die for a good person.

   Romans 5:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB varies its presentation between “scarcely,” “with difficulty,” “only with difficulty,” and “hardly.” These renderings show the clauses' overall force rather than supplying separate definitions.