οὐ
not
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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
- John 1:5 οὐ ptcl neg The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.
- John 1:8 οὐκ ptcl neg He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
- John 1:10 οὐκ ptcl neg He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.
- John 1:11 οὐ ptcl neg He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
- John 1:13 οὐκ ptcl neg who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- John 1:20 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg He confessed, and didn't deny, but he confessed, "I am not the Christ."
- John 1:21 οὐκ οὔ ptcl neg ptcl neg They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
- John 1:25 οὐκ ptcl neg They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
- John 1:26 οὐκ ptcl neg John answered them, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don't know.
- John 1:27 οὐκ ptcl neg He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen."
- John 1:31 οὐκ ptcl neg I didn't know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel."
- John 1:33 οὐκ ptcl neg I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'
- John 1:48 οὐκ ptcl neg Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."
- John 2:3 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."
- John 2:9 οὐκ ptcl neg When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
- John 2:12 οὐ ptcl neg After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
- John 2:24 οὐκ ptcl neg But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
- John 2:25 οὐ ptcl neg and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
- John 3:3 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
- John 3:5 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
- John 3:8 οὐκ ptcl neg The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
- John 3:10 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
- John 3:11 οὐ ptcl neg Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
- John 3:12 οὐ ptcl neg If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
- John 3:17 οὐ ptcl neg For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 3:18 οὐ ptcl neg He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
- John 3:20 οὐκ ptcl neg For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
- John 3:27 οὐ ptcl neg John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
- John 3:28 οὐκ ptcl neg You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'
- John 3:34 οὐ ptcl neg For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- John 3:36 οὐκ ptcl neg One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
- John 4:2 οὐκ ptcl neg (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
- John 4:14 οὐ ptcl neg but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
- John 4:17 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
- John 4:18 οὐκ ptcl neg for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
- John 4:22 οὐκ ptcl neg You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
- John 4:32 οὐκ ptcl neg But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
- John 4:35 οὐχ ptcl neg Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
- John 4:38 οὐχ ptcl neg I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
- John 4:44 οὐκ ptcl neg For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
- John 4:48 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
- John 5:7 οὐκ ptcl neg The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
- John 5:10 οὐκ ptcl neg So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
- John 5:13 οὐκ ptcl neg But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
- John 5:18 οὐ ptcl neg For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
- John 5:19 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
- John 5:23 οὐ ptcl neg that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
- John 5:24 οὐκ ptcl neg "Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- John 5:30 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
- John 5:31 οὐκ ptcl neg "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
- John 5:34 οὐ ptcl neg But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
- John 5:38 οὐκ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
- John 5:40 οὐ ptcl neg Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
- John 5:41 οὐ ptcl neg I don't receive glory from men.
- John 5:42 οὐκ ptcl neg But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
- John 5:43 οὐ ptcl neg I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- John 5:44 οὐ ptcl neg How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
- John 5:47 οὐ ptcl neg But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
- John 6:7 οὐκ ptcl neg Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
- John 6:22 οὐκ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
- John 6:24 οὐκ ptcl neg When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
- John 6:26 οὐχ ptcl neg Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
- John 6:32 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
- John 6:35 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
- John 6:36 οὐ ptcl neg But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
- John 6:37 οὐ ptcl neg All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
- John 6:38 οὐχ ptcl neg For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
- John 6:42 οὐχ ptcl neg They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
- John 6:46 οὐχ ptcl neg Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
- John 6:53 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
- John 6:58 οὐ ptcl neg This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
- John 6:63 οὐκ ptcl neg It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- John 6:64 οὐ ptcl neg But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
- John 6:70 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
- John 7:1 οὐ ptcl neg After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- John 7:7 οὐ ptcl neg The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- John 7:8 οὐκ ptcl neg You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
- John 7:10 οὐ ptcl neg But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
- John 7:12 οὔ ptcl neg There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."
- John 7:16 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
- John 7:18 οὐκ ptcl neg He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
- John 7:19 οὐ ptcl neg Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
- John 7:22 οὐχ ptcl neg Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
- John 7:25 οὐχ ptcl neg Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?
- John 7:28 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
- John 7:34 οὐχ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."
- John 7:35 οὐχ ptcl neg The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
- John 7:36 οὐχ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come?'"
- John 7:42 οὐχ ptcl neg Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
- John 7:45 οὐκ ptcl neg The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
- John 7:52 οὐκ ptcl neg They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
- John 8:12 οὐ ptcl neg Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
- John 8:13 οὐκ ptcl neg The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
- John 8:14 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
- John 8:15 οὐ ptcl neg You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
- John 8:16 οὐκ ptcl neg Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
- John 8:21 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
- John 8:22 οὐ ptcl neg The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
- John 8:23 οὐκ ptcl neg He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
- John 8:27 οὐκ ptcl neg They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
- John 8:29 οὐκ ptcl neg He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
- John 8:35 οὐ ptcl neg A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
- John 8:37 οὐ ptcl neg I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
- John 8:40 οὐκ ptcl neg But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
- John 8:41 οὐ ptcl neg You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
- John 8:43 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
- John 8:44 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- John 8:45 οὐ ptcl neg But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
- John 8:46 οὐ ptcl neg Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
- John 8:47 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
- John 8:48 οὐ ptcl neg Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
- John 8:49 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
- John 8:50 οὐ ptcl neg But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
- John 8:51 οὐ ptcl neg Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
- John 8:52 οὐ ptcl neg Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
- John 8:55 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
- John 9:8 οὐχ ptcl neg The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
- John 9:12 οὐκ ptcl neg Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."
- John 9:16 οὐκ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
- John 9:18 οὐκ ptcl neg The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
- John 9:21 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
- John 9:25 οὐκ ptcl neg He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
- John 9:27 οὐκ ptcl neg He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
- John 9:29 οὐκ ptcl neg We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
- John 9:30 οὐκ ptcl neg The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
- John 9:31 οὐκ ptcl neg We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
- John 9:32 οὐκ ptcl neg Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
- John 9:33 οὐκ ptcl neg If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
- John 9:41 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- John 10:5 οὐ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
- John 10:6 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
- John 10:8 οὐκ ptcl neg All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
- John 10:10 οὐκ ptcl neg The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
- John 10:12 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
- John 10:13 οὐ ptcl neg The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
- John 10:16 οὐκ ptcl neg I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
- John 10:21 οὐκ ptcl neg Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
- John 10:25 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
- John 10:26 οὐ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
- John 10:28 οὐ οὐχ ptcl neg ptcl neg I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
- John 10:33 οὐ ptcl neg The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
- John 10:34 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
- John 10:35 οὐ ptcl neg If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
- John 10:37 οὐ ptcl neg If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
- John 11:4 οὐκ ptcl neg But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."
- John 11:9 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
- John 11:10 οὐκ ptcl neg But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
- John 11:15 οὐκ ptcl neg I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
- John 11:21 οὐκ ptcl neg Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
- John 11:26 οὐ ptcl neg Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
- John 11:32 οὐκ ptcl neg Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
- John 11:37 οὐκ ptcl neg Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
- John 11:40 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"
- John 11:49 οὐκ ptcl neg But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
- John 11:51 οὐκ ptcl neg Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
- John 11:52 οὐχ ptcl neg and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
- John 11:56 οὐ ptcl neg Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
- John 12:5 οὐκ ptcl neg "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"
- John 12:6 οὐχ ptcl neg Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
- John 12:8 οὐ ptcl neg For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
- John 12:9 οὐ ptcl neg A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
- John 12:16 οὐκ ptcl neg His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
- John 12:19 οὐκ ptcl neg The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
- John 12:30 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
- John 12:35 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
- John 12:37 οὐκ ptcl neg But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,
- John 12:39 οὐκ ptcl neg For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
- John 12:42 οὐχ ptcl neg Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
- John 12:44 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
- John 12:47 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 12:49 οὐκ ptcl neg For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
- John 13:7 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
- John 13:8 οὐ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."
- John 13:10 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."
- John 13:16 οὐκ ptcl neg Most assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
- John 13:18 οὐ ptcl neg I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
- John 13:33 οὐ ptcl neg Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
- John 13:36 οὐ ptcl neg Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."
- John 13:37 οὐ ptcl neg Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
- John 13:38 οὐ ptcl neg Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most assuredly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.
- John 14:5 οὐκ ptcl neg Thomas says to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
- John 14:9 οὐκ ptcl neg Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
- John 14:10 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
- John 14:17 οὐ οὐ ptcl neg ptcl neg the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
- John 14:18 οὐκ ptcl neg I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
- John 14:22 οὐχ ptcl neg Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
- John 14:24 οὐ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
- John 14:27 οὐ ptcl neg Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
- John 14:30 οὐκ ptcl neg I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
- John 15:4 οὐ ptcl neg Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
- John 15:5 οὐ ptcl neg I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
- John 15:15 οὐκ ptcl neg No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
- John 15:16 οὐχ ptcl neg You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- John 15:19 οὐκ ptcl neg If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- John 15:20 οὐκ ptcl neg Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
- John 15:21 οὐκ ptcl neg But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
- John 15:22 οὐκ οὐκ ptcl neg ptcl neg If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- John 15:24 οὐκ ptcl neg If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
- John 16:3 οὐκ ptcl neg They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- John 16:4 οὐκ ptcl neg But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
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.
“not” is the headline sense of the Greek word ου (ou). First canonically at Matthew 1:25, it enters the text early. It appears 1,401 verses across 27 books of the Greek New Testament, among its most common vocabulary. Related forms include μη, μηδαμως and μηδε. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3756 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 →
- 1,401
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,401 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #11
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Greek words (rank 11 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1,401 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 1,401 distinct verses.
- Gospels 686 verses · 49%
- Pauline corpus 404 verses · 29%
- Johannine 348 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 256 verses · 18%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 92 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 62 verses · 4%
- Revelation 54 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 1,159×, No 138×, Cannot 27×
- American Standard Version: Not 1,108×, No 165×, Is not 19×
- Berean Standard Bible: Not 365×, No 123×, Does not 26×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Not 1,367×, No 92×, Certainly not 89×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3756 across 1,506 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 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 31 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3756 across 1,534 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 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3756 across 705 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 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 128 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3756 across 1,635 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 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; in direct questions expecting an affirmative answer
Word origin
Derived from μη (mḗ) (G3361) — not.
Also οὐκ ouk ook used before a vowel and οὐχ ouch ookh before an aspirate. A primary word; the absolutely negative (compare G3361 ) adverb; no or not : - + long nay neither never no (X man) none [can-] not + nothing + special un ([-worthy]) when + without + yet but. See also G3364 G3372 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3756 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οὐκ ouk | Particle, Negative | Matthew 1:25 | 828 |
| οὐ ou | Particle, Negative | Matthew 5:14 | 660 |
| οὐχ ouch | Particle, Negative | Matthew 6:26 | 104 |
| οὔ oú | Particle, Negative | Matthew 5:37 | 14 |
| Οὐ Ou | Particle, Negative | Matthew 7:21 | 11 |
| Οὐκ Ouk | Particle, Negative | Matthew 10:24 | 4 |
| οὒ où | Particle, Negative | Matthew 5:37 | 3 |
| Οὐχ Ouch | Particle, Negative | Romans 9:6 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3756, 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
- 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
Derived from this word
- μη mḗ G3361 not
- 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
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 ου appears 5,233 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4,158 verses in 38 books.
- 5,233
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4,158
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:5 οὐ
- Exodus 1:8 οὐ
- Leviticus 1:17 οὐ
- Numbers 1:47 οὐ
- Deuteronomy 1:9 οὐ
- Joshua 1:5 οὐ
- Judges 1:18 οὐ
- Ruth 2:7 οὐ
- 1 Samuel 1:2 οὐ
- 2 Samuel 1:10 οὐ
- 1 Kings 1:1 οὐ
- 2 Kings 1:4 οὐ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3756) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 4,158. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:5 οὐ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:17 οὐ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 2:18 οὐ Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:20 οὐ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 2:25 οὐ They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
- Genesis 3:1 οὐ 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 οὐ 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 3:4 οὐ The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
- Genesis 4:5 οὐ but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
- Genesis 4:7 οὐ 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 οὐ Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
- Genesis 4:12 οὐ From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
- Genesis 4:15 οὐ 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 5:24 οὐ Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
- Genesis 6:3 οὐ 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 8:7 οὐ and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:9 οὐ but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 οὐ He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Genesis 8:21 οὐ Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 8:22 οὐ While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
- Genesis 9:4 οὐ But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.
- Genesis 9:11 οὐ I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:15 οὐ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:23 οὐ Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness.
- Genesis 11:6 οὐ Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 11:30 οὐ Sarai was barren. She had no child.
- Genesis 12:18 οὐ Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
- Genesis 13:6 οὐ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
- Genesis 13:9 οὐ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
- Genesis 15:3 οὐ Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
- Genesis 15:4 οὐ Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
- Genesis 15:10 οὐ He took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
- Genesis 15:13 οὐ He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
- Genesis 16:1 οὐ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Genesis 16:10 οὐ The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
- Genesis 17:5 οὐ Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.
- Genesis 17:12 οὐ He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner who is not of your seed.
- Genesis 17:14 οὐ The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
- Genesis 17:15 οὐ God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
- Genesis 18:15 οὐ Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid." He said, "No, but you did laugh."
- Genesis 18:24 οὐ What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?
- Genesis 18:25 οὐ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Genesis 18:28 οὐ 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 οὐ 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 οὐ 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 οὐ 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 οὐ 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 19:2 οὐ and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
- Genesis 19:8 οὐ 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 19:19 οὐ 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3756) 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.