μή
not
G3361
Strong's Greek
mḗ
Transliteration
/may/
Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT
1,033
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Thayer Definition
1. no, not lest
Strong's concordance entry
A primary particle of qualified negation (whereas G3756 expresses an absolute denial); (adverbially) not (conjugationally) lest ; also (as interrogitive implying a negative answer [whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one]); whether : - any but (that) X forbear + God forbid + lack lest neither never no (X wise in) none nor [can-] not nothing that not un [-taken] without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also G3362 G3363 G3364 G3372 G3373 G3375 G3378 .
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short, often untranslatable function word adding nuance or connection.
Degree
- Negative
- Marks a negative form.
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John 109 verses
- John 16:7 μὴ ptcl neg Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
- John 17:12 μὴ ptcl neg While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
- John 18:11 μὴ ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
- John 18:17 μὴ ptcl neg Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
- John 18:25 μὴ ptcl neg Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
- John 18:28 μὴ ptcl neg They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
- John 18:30 μὴ ptcl neg They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."
- John 18:36 μὴ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
- John 18:40 μὴ ptcl neg Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.
- John 19:11 μὴ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
- John 19:15 μὴ ptcl neg They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
- John 19:21 μὴ ptcl neg The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"
- John 19:24 μὴ ptcl neg Then they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be," that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
- John 19:31 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- John 20:17 μή ptcl neg Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
- John 20:25 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
- John 20:27 μὴ ptcl neg Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."
- John 20:29 μὴ ptcl neg Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
- John 21:5 μή ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
Acts 60 verses
- Acts 1:4 μὴ ptcl neg Being assembled together with them, he charged them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
- Acts 1:20 μὴ ptcl neg For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his habitation be made desolate, Let no one dwell therein,' and, 'Let another take his office.'
- Acts 2:25 μὴ ptcl neg For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
- Acts 3:23 μὴ ptcl neg It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
- Acts 4:17 μὴ ptcl neg But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name."
- Acts 4:18 μὴ ptcl neg They called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- Acts 4:20 μὴ ptcl neg for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
- Acts 5:7 μὴ ptcl neg About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
- Acts 5:26 μὴ ptcl neg Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
- Acts 5:28 μὴ ptcl neg saying, "Didn't we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
- Acts 5:40 μὴ ptcl neg They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
- Acts 7:19 μὴ ptcl neg The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn't stay alive.
- Acts 7:28 μὴ ptcl neg Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
- Acts 7:42 μὴ ptcl neg But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Acts 7:60 μὴ ptcl neg He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
- Acts 8:31 μή ptcl neg He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.
- Acts 9:9 μὴ ptcl neg He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
- Acts 9:26 μὴ ptcl neg When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
- Acts 9:38 μὴ ptcl neg As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.
- Acts 10:15 μὴ ptcl neg A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."
- Acts 10:47 μὴ ptcl neg "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
- Acts 11:9 μὴ ptcl neg But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'
- Acts 11:19 μὴ ptcl neg They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
- Acts 12:19 μὴ ptcl neg When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
- Acts 13:11 μὴ ptcl neg Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- Acts 13:40 μὴ ptcl neg Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:
- Acts 13:41 μὴ ptcl neg 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"
- Acts 14:18 μὴ ptcl neg Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
- Acts 15:1 μὴ ptcl neg Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."
- Acts 15:19 μὴ ptcl neg "Therefore my judgment is that we don't trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
- Acts 15:38 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work.
- Acts 17:6 μὴ ptcl neg When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
- Acts 18:9 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
- Acts 19:31 μὴ ptcl neg Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
- Acts 20:10 μὴ ptcl neg Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."
- Acts 20:16 μὴ ptcl neg For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.
- Acts 20:20 μὴ ptcl neg how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
- Acts 20:22 μὴ ptcl neg Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
- Acts 20:27 μὴ ptcl neg for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- Acts 20:29 μὴ ptcl neg For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Acts 21:4 μὴ ptcl neg Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 21:12 μὴ ptcl neg When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
- Acts 21:14 μὴ ptcl neg When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."
- Acts 21:21 μὴ ptcl neg They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
- Acts 21:34 μὴ ptcl neg Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn't find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
- Acts 23:8 μὴ ptcl neg For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.
- Acts 23:10 μὴ ptcl neg When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
- Acts 23:21 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
- Acts 24:4 μὴ ptcl neg But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
- Acts 25:24 μὴ ptcl neg Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- Acts 25:27 μὴ ptcl neg For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."
- Acts 26:32 μὴ ptcl neg Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
- Acts 27:7 μὴ ptcl neg When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
- Acts 27:15 μὴ ptcl neg When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.
- Acts 27:17 μὴ ptcl neg After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
- Acts 27:21 μὴ ptcl neg When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.
- Acts 27:24 μὴ ptcl neg saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
- Acts 27:31 μὴ ptcl neg Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."
- Acts 27:42 μή ptcl neg The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
- Acts 28:26 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive.
Romans 65 verses
- Romans 1:28 μὴ ptcl neg Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- Romans 2:14 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
- Romans 2:21 μὴ ptcl neg You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
- Romans 2:22 μὴ ptcl neg You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
- Romans 3:3 μὴ ptcl neg For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
- Romans 3:4 μὴ ptcl neg May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you come into judgment."
- Romans 3:5 μὴ ptcl neg But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Romans 3:6 μὴ ptcl neg May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
- Romans 3:8 μὴ ptcl neg Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
- Romans 3:31 μὴ ptcl neg Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Romans 4:5 μὴ ptcl neg But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
- Romans 4:8 μὴ ptcl neg Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
- Romans 4:17 μὴ ptcl neg As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- Romans 4:19 μὴ ptcl neg Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
- Romans 5:13 μὴ ptcl neg For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
- Romans 5:14 μὴ ptcl neg Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
- Romans 6:2 μὴ ptcl neg May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:12 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
- Romans 6:15 μὴ ptcl neg What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Romans 7:3 μὴ ptcl neg So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
- Romans 7:7 μὴ μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
- Romans 7:13 μὴ ptcl neg Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
- Romans 8:4 μὴ ptcl neg that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
- Romans 9:14 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
- Romans 9:20 μὴ ptcl neg But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
- Romans 9:29 μὴ ptcl neg As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And would have been made like Gomorrah."
- Romans 9:30 μὴ ptcl neg What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
- Romans 10:6 μὴ ptcl neg But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);
- Romans 10:15 μὴ ptcl neg And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
- Romans 10:18 μὴ ptcl neg But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most assuredly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, Their words to the ends of the world."
- Romans 10:19 μὴ ptcl neg But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."
- Romans 10:20 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
- Romans 11:1 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg I ask then, Did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Romans 11:8 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
- Romans 11:10 μὴ ptcl neg Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
- Romans 11:11 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
- Romans 11:15 μὴ ptcl neg For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
- Romans 11:18 μὴ ptcl neg don't boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.
- Romans 11:20 μὴ ptcl neg True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
- Romans 11:23 μὴ ptcl neg They also, if they don't continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Romans 11:25 μὴ ptcl neg For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Romans 12:2 μὴ ptcl neg Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Romans 12:3 μὴ ptcl neg For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:11 μὴ ptcl neg not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
- Romans 12:14 μὴ ptcl neg Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.
- Romans 12:16 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.
- Romans 12:19 μὴ ptcl neg Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
- Romans 12:21 μὴ ptcl neg Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- Romans 13:1 μὴ ptcl neg Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- Romans 13:3 μὴ ptcl neg For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,
- Romans 13:8 μὴ ptcl neg Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:13 μὴ μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
- Romans 13:14 μὴ ptcl neg But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- Romans 14:1 μὴ ptcl neg Now receive one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
- Romans 14:3 μὴ μὴ μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.
- Romans 14:6 μὴ ptcl neg He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
- Romans 14:13 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
- Romans 14:14 μὴ ptcl neg I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:15 μὴ ptcl neg Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- Romans 14:16 μὴ ptcl neg Then don't let your good be slandered,
- Romans 14:20 μὴ ptcl neg Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
- Romans 14:21 μὴ ptcl neg It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
- Romans 14:22 μὴ ptcl neg Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
- Romans 15:1 μὴ ptcl neg Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Romans 15:20 μὴ ptcl neg yes, making it my aim to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.
1 Corinthians 80 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:7 μὴ ptcl neg so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Corinthians 1:10 μὴ ptcl neg Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- 1 Corinthians 1:13 μὴ ptcl neg Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 μὴ ptcl neg I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
- 1 Corinthians 1:15 μή ptcl neg so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 μὴ ptcl neg For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
- 1 Corinthians 1:28 μὴ ptcl neg and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:
- 1 Corinthians 1:29 μὴ ptcl neg that no flesh should boast before God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:2 μὴ ptcl neg For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- 1 Corinthians 2:5 μὴ ptcl neg that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- 1 Corinthians 4:6 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
- 1 Corinthians 4:7 μὴ ptcl neg For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
- 1 Corinthians 4:18 μὴ ptcl neg Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- 1 Corinthians 5:9 μὴ ptcl neg I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 μὴ ptcl neg But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 μὴ ptcl neg Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Corinthians 6:15 μὴ ptcl neg Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
- 1 Corinthians 7:1 μὴ ptcl neg Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
- 1 Corinthians 7:5 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- 1 Corinthians 7:10 μὴ ptcl neg But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband
- 1 Corinthians 7:11 μὴ ptcl neg (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:12 μὴ ptcl neg But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
- 1 Corinthians 7:13 μὴ ptcl neg The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:17 μὴ ptcl neg Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
- 1 Corinthians 7:18 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21 μή ptcl neg Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
- 1 Corinthians 7:23 μὴ ptcl neg You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
- 1 Corinthians 7:27 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:29 μὴ ptcl neg But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
- 1 Corinthians 7:30 μὴ μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg ptcl neg and those who weep, as though they didn't weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn't rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn't possess;
- 1 Corinthians 7:31 μὴ ptcl neg and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
- 1 Corinthians 7:37 μὴ ptcl neg But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.
- 1 Corinthians 7:38 μὴ ptcl neg So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 μὴ ptcl neg But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
- 1 Corinthians 8:13 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
- 1 Corinthians 9:4 μὴ ptcl neg Have we no right to eat and to drink?
- 1 Corinthians 9:5 μὴ ptcl neg Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
- 1 Corinthians 9:6 μὴ ptcl neg Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
- 1 Corinthians 9:8 μὴ ptcl neg Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
- 1 Corinthians 9:9 μὴ ptcl neg For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- 1 Corinthians 9:12 μή ptcl neg If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 9:16 μὴ ptcl neg For if I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Gospel.
- 1 Corinthians 9:18 μὴ ptcl neg What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Gospel, I may present the Gospel of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Gospel.
- 1 Corinthians 9:20 μὴ ptcl neg To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
- 1 Corinthians 9:21 μὴ ptcl neg to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
- 1 Corinthians 10:6 μὴ ptcl neg Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 μὴ ptcl neg Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13 μὴ ptcl neg No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22 μὴ ptcl neg Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 μὴ ptcl neg But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
- 1 Corinthians 10:33 μὴ ptcl neg even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- 1 Corinthians 11:22 μὴ μὴ ptcl neg ptcl neg What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
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At its core, μη (mḗ) means “not.” It first appears in Matthew 1:19. It turns up in 914 verses across 27 books, one of the most common footprint. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ου, ου μη and ουδε. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
any but
Modern gloss
not
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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About this word
Strong's G3361 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 914
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 914 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #19
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 19 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 914 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 914 distinct verses.
- Gospels 419 verses · 46%
- Pauline corpus 290 verses · 32%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 186 verses · 20%
- Johannine 174 verses · 19%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 67 verses · 7%
- Revelation 41 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 37 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Not 493×, No 49×, God forbid 15×
- American Standard Version: Not 535×, No 64×, Lest 20×
- Berean Standard Bible: Not 142×, Do not 122×, No 41×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Not 754×, Certainly not 88×, Except 67×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3361 across 647 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 33 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 27 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3361 across 863 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 89 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3361 across 413 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 242 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3361 across 1,087 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- no, not lest
Word origin
Derived from ου (ou) (G3756) — not.
A primary particle of qualified negation (whereas G3756 expresses an absolute denial); (adverbially) not (conjugationally) lest ; also (as interrogitive implying a negative answer [whereas G3756 expects an affirmative one]); whether : - any but (that) X forbear + God forbid + lack lest neither never no (X wise in) none nor [can-] not nothing that not un [-taken] without. Often used in compounds in substantially the same relations. See also G3362 G3363 G3364 G3372 G3373 G3375 G3378 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3361 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μὴ mḕ | Particle, Negative | Matthew 1:19 | 966 |
| μή mḗ | Particle, Negative | Matthew 23:39 | 47 |
| Μὴ Mḕ | Particle, Negative | Matthew 5:17 | 12 |
| μήγε mḗge | Particle, Negative | Matthew 6:1 | 8 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3361, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ου μη ou mḗ G3364 by no means
- ουδε oudé G3761 neither
- ουκετι oukéti G3765 no longer
- ουκουν oukoûn G3766 not therefore
- ουπω oúpō G3768 not yet
- ουτε oúte G3777 neither
- ουχι ouchí G3780 not at all
Derived from this word
- μηδαμως mēdamōs G3365 by no means
- μηδε mēdé G3366 and not
- μηδεις mēdeís G3367 no one
- μηκετι mēkéti G3371 no longer
- μη ουκ mḕ ouk G3378 not ever
- μηποτε mḗpote G3379 lest
- μηπω mḗpō G3380 not yet
- μηπως mḗpōs G3381 lest
- μητε mḗte G3383 nor
- μητι mḗti G3385 whether
- μητις mḗtis G3387 let no one
- ου ou G3756 not
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 20 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μη appears 2,278 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,896 verses in 37 books.
- 2,278
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1,896
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 37 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 37 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:1 μή
- Exodus 2:14 μή
- Leviticus 5:1 μή
- Numbers 4:15 μή
- Deuteronomy 1:17 μή
- Joshua 1:9 μή
- Judges 2:3 μή
- Ruth 1:11 μή
- 1 Samuel 1:6 μή
- 2 Samuel 1:20 μή
- 1 Kings 2:9 μή
- 2 Kings 1:3 μή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3361) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,896. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:1 μή Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:3 μή but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:11 μή God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:17 μή To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 4:7 μή If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
- Genesis 4:9 μή Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:15 μή Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.
- Genesis 6:3 μή Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Genesis 7:2 μή You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 7:3 μή Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 7:8 μή Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
- Genesis 11:7 μή Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 13:8 μή Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
- Genesis 14:23 μή that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
- Genesis 15:1 μή After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
- Genesis 16:2 μή Sarai said to Abram," See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 18:3 μή and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
- Genesis 18:14 μή Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
- Genesis 18:17 μή Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
- Genesis 18:21 μή I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Genesis 18:23 μή Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:28 μή What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 18:29 μή He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
- Genesis 18:30 μή He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
- Genesis 18:31 μή He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 μή He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 19:7 μή He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:8 μή See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Genesis 19:9 μή They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:15 μή When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:17 μή It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!"
- Genesis 19:19 μή See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Genesis 19:21 μή He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
- Genesis 20:6 μή God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
- Genesis 20:7 μή Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 20:9 μή Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
- Genesis 21:12 μή God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Genesis 21:16 μή She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 21:17 μή God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
- Genesis 21:23 μή Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
- Genesis 22:12 μή He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 23:6 μή "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 24:3 μή I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
- Genesis 24:6 μή Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
- Genesis 24:8 μή If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
- Genesis 24:33 μή Food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have told my message." He said, "Speak on."
- Genesis 24:41 μή Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.'
- Genesis 24:49 μή Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 24:56 μή He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
- Genesis 26:2 μή Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3361) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
