μηδεις
no one
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Negative
- Marks a negative form.
Every verse where G3367 appears in the Book of John — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- nobody, no one, nothing
Word origin
Derived from μη (mḗ) (G3361) — not.
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
- μηδαμως mēdamōs G3365 by no means
- μηδε mēdé G3366 and not
- 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 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
- Genesis 19:8 μηδείς
- Exodus 16:19 μηδείς
- Numbers 17:5 μηδείς
- Deuteronomy 28:55 μηδείς
- Joshua 6:10 μηδείς
- 1 Samuel 12:21 μηδείς
- 1 Kings 18:40 μηδείς
- 2 Kings 10:21 μηδείς
- Esther 4:1 μηδείς
- Job 12:6 μηδείς
- Psalms 55:8 μηδείς
- Proverbs 2:12 μηδείς
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.
- Genesis 19:8 μηδείς 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 22:12 μηδείς 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."
- Exodus 16:19 μηδείς Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
- Exodus 16:29 μηδείς Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
- Exodus 22:9 μηδείς For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
- Exodus 34:3 μηδείς No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."
- Numbers 17:5 μηδείς It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Deuteronomy 28:55 μηδείς so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
- Joshua 6:10 μηδείς Joshua commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall you shout.
- 1 Samuel 12:21 μηδείς and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
- 1 Samuel 21:3 μηδείς Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
- 1 Kings 18:40 μηδείς and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
- 2 Kings 10:21 μηδείς Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
- Esther 4:1 μηδείς Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Job 12:6 μηδείς The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.
- Psalms 55:8 μηδείς "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest."
- Psalms 80:15 μηδείς The stock which your right hand planted, The branch that you made strong for yourself.
- Proverbs 2:12 μηδείς To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things;
- Proverbs 5:17 μηδείς Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.
- Proverbs 13:7 μηδείς There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
- Proverbs 23:9 μηδείς Don't speak in the ears of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
- Proverbs 24:22 μηδείς For their calamity will rise suddenly; The destruction from them both--who knows?
- Proverbs 28:1 μηδείς The wicked flee when no one pursues; But the righteous are as bold as a lion.
- Ecclesiastes 7:14 μηδείς In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
- Isaiah 36:21 μηδείς But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Don't answer him.
- Jeremiah 47:15 μηδείς
- Jeremiah 51:7 μηδείς Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Daniel 2:35 μηδείς Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Hosea 4:4 μηδείς "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
- Jonah 3:7 μηδείς He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
- Micah 5:6 μηδείς They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, And the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, When he invades our land, And when he marches within our border.
- Zephaniah 3:6 μηδείς I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
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.
