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οὐδέ

neither

G3761 Strong's Greek
oudé Transliteration
/oo-deh'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 136 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, ουδε (oudé) means “neither.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:15. Spanning 125 verses in 18 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. From the same root come ου, μη and ου μη. Dig into 125-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
neither
Modern gloss
neither
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3761 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 →

125
distinct verses
The word appears in 125 distinct verses.
18 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 18 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:15
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:15.
Revelation 21:23
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:23.
#123
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 123 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 125 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 64 · 51%
  • Acts 12 · 10%
  • Pauline Epistles 33 · 26%
  • General Epistles 10 · 8%
  • Revelation 6 · 5%

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 125 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 64 verses · 51%
  • Pauline corpus 33 verses · 26%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 30 verses · 24%
  • Johannine 21 verses · 17%
  • Hebrews 6 verses · 5%
  • Revelation 6 verses · 5%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 3%

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: Neither 67×, Nor 31×, Not 23×
  • American Standard Version: Neither 56×, Nor 30×, Not 20×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Nor 32×, Even 14×, Neither 9×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nor 63×, Even 25×, Neither 22×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3761 across 141 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Neither” 67×
  • “Nor” 31×
  • “Not” 23×
  • “Much as” 4×
  • “Even” 3×

Plus 13 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 G3761 across 136 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Neither” 56×
  • “Nor” 30×
  • “Not” 20×
  • “No” 9×
  • “Even” 5×
  • “Or” 5×
  • “Yet” 2×

Plus 9 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.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3761 across 77 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Nor” 32×
  • “Even” 14×
  • “Neither” 9×
  • “No” 8×
  • “Nothing” 3×
  • “Or” 2×

Plus 9 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 46 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3761 across 151 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Nor” 63×
  • “Even” 25×
  • “Neither” 22×
  • “Not” 19×
  • “Or” 8×
  • “And” 3×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “No” 2×

Plus 7 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. but not, neither, nor, not even

Word origin

Derived from ου (ou) (G3756) — not.

Part of speech: Conjunction

From G3756 and G1161 ; not however that is neither nor not even : - neither (indeed) never no (more nor not) nor (yet) (also even then) not (even so much as) + nothing so much as.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G3761 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οὐδὲ oudè Conjunction, Negative Matthew 5:15 128
οὐδ’ oud Conjunction, Negative Matthew 24:21 8

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3761, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ουδε appears 455 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 355 verses in 26 books.

455
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
355
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3761) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 355. 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 (G3761) 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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