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μηδεις

no one

G3367 Strong's Greek
mēdeís Transliteration
/may-dice'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 92 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“no one” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective μηδεις (mēdeís). Where the King James Version says “man,” newer translations reach for “one” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 88 verses across 22 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Acts. First canonically at Matthew 8:4, it enters the text early. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
any
Modern gloss
no one
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. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G3367 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 →

88
distinct verses
The word appears in 88 distinct verses.
22 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 22 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 8:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 8:4.
Revelation 3:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 3:11.
#188
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 188 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 88 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 23 · 26%
  • Acts 22 · 25%
  • Pauline Epistles 34 · 39%
  • General Epistles 7 · 8%
  • Revelation 2 · 2%

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 88 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 34 verses · 39%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 31 verses · 35%
  • Gospels 23 verses · 26%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 7%
  • Johannine 5 verses · 6%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 2%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%

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: Man 32×, Nothing 25×, No 15×
  • American Standard Version: Man 26×, Nothing 23×, No 16×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Nothing 14×, No 8×, One 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: One 33×, Nothing 27×, No 9×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3367 across 91 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 32×
  • “Nothing” 25×
  • “No” 15×
  • “None” 5×
  • “Any” 4×
  • “Any thing” 2×

Plus 8 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 2 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3367 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 26×
  • “Nothing” 23×
  • “No” 16×
  • “Not” 4×
  • “Let no man” 3×
  • “Any” 2×
  • “One” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3367 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Nothing” 14×
  • “No” 8×
  • “One” 8×
  • “Let no one” 6×
  • “Without” 6×
  • “Not” 3×
  • “To” 2×
  • “Way” 2×

Plus 6 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 32 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3367 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “One” 33×
  • “Nothing” 27×
  • “No” 9×
  • “Not” 9×
  • “Any” 5×
  • “Anything” 4×
  • “Without” 2×

Plus 3 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.

  1. nobody, no one, nothing

Word origin

Derived from μη (mḗ) (G3361) — not.

Part of speech: Adjective

the masculine feminine irregular (second form) and neuter (third form) from G3361 and G1520 ; not even one (man woman thing): - any (man thing) no (man) none not (at all any man a whit) nothing + without delay.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G3367 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
μηδὲν mēdèn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Mark 1:44 33
μηδενὶ mēdenì Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 8:4 20
μηδεὶς mēdeìs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 9:30 12
μηδένα mēdéna Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Luke 3:14 11
μηδεμίαν mēdemían Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine, Negative Acts 13:28 7
μηδενὸς mēdenòs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter, Negative Acts 19:40 3
μηδείς mēdeís Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative 1 Timothy 4:12 2
Μηδενὶ Mēdenì Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Romans 13:8 1
Μηδεὶς Mēdeìs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative 1 Corinthians 3:18 1
μηδέν mēdén Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative 2 Corinthians 13:7 1
μηθὲν mēthèn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Acts 27:33 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3367, 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

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word μηδεις appears 33 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 32 verses in 20 books.

33
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
32
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
20 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3367) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3367) 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.

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