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οὐδείς

nothing

G3762 Strong's Greek
oudeís Transliteration
/oo-dice'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 233 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.

ουδεις (oudeís) is a Greek word most often rendered “nothing.” Translators differ — “man” in the King James Version, then “one” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. It turns up in 220 verses across 19 books, a common footprint. It first appears in Matthew 5:13. From the same root come ουδε, ουδεποτε and ουδεπω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
any
Modern gloss
nothing
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 G3762 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 →

220
distinct verses
The word appears in 220 distinct verses.
19 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:13.
Revelation 19:12
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 19:12.
#68
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 68 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 220 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 130 · 59%
  • Acts 27 · 12%
  • Pauline Epistles 42 · 19%
  • General Epistles 10 · 5%
  • Revelation 11 · 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 220 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 130 verses · 59%
  • Johannine 66 verses · 30%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 61 verses · 28%
  • Pauline corpus 42 verses · 19%
  • Revelation 11 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 6 verses · 3%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 2%

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 90×, Nothing 58×, No 23×
  • American Standard Version: Man 58×, Nothing 53×, No 30×
  • Berean Standard Bible: One 95×, Nothing 42×, No 14×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: One 97×, Nothing 66×, No 17×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3762 across 226 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 90×
  • “Nothing” 58×
  • “No” 23×
  • “None” 22×
  • “Any” 7×
  • “Any man” 3×
  • “Is none” 3×
  • “Is nothing” 3×
  • “All” 2×
  • “Never” 2×
  • “Not” 2×

Plus 11 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 11 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3762 across 221 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 58×
  • “Nothing” 53×
  • “No” 30×
  • “None” 26×
  • “One” 21×
  • “Any” 5×
  • “Any man” 5×
  • “Do nothing” 2×
  • “Not” 2×

Plus 19 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 G3762 across 181 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “One” 95×
  • “Nothing” 42×
  • “No” 14×
  • “None” 8×
  • “Any” 2×
  • “Nothing at all” 2×
  • “Only” 2×

Plus 16 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 49 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3762 across 238 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “One” 97×
  • “Nothing” 66×
  • “No” 17×
  • “None” 17×
  • “Anyone” 13×
  • “Anything” 11×
  • “Not” 6×
  • “All” 4×
  • “Any” 4×

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. no one, nothing

Word origin

Derived from ουδε (oudé) (G3761) — neither.

Including the feminine οὐδεμία oudemia oo-dem-ee'-ah and the neuter οὐδέν ouden oo-den' From G3761 and G1520 ; not even one (man woman or thing) that is none nobody nothing : - any (man) aught man neither any (thing) never (man) no (man) none (+ of these things) not (any at all -thing) nought.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 15 distinct written forms G3762 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
οὐδεὶς oudeìs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 9:16 86
οὐδὲν oudèn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Matthew 5:13 54
οὐδέν oudén Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Mark 14:60 30
οὐδένα oudéna Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 17:8 16
οὐδενὶ oudenì Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Mark 16:8 8
οὐδείς oudeís Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Mark 10:29 8
οὐδεμίαν oudemían Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine, Negative Mark 6:5 7
οὐδενὸς oudenòs Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine, Negative Luke 8:43 6
Οὐδεὶς Oudeìs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 6:24 4
οὐθὲν outhèn Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Luke 23:14 4
οὐδεμία oudemía Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine, Negative Acts 27:22 3
οὐθέν outhén Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Acts 26:26 2
οὐθενός outhenós Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine, Negative 2 Corinthians 11:8 2
οὐδενός oudenós Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine, Negative Matthew 22:16 2
Οὐδὲν Oudèn Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter, Negative Romans 8:1 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3762, 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 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ουδεις appears 166 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 156 verses in 26 books.

166
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
156
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 (G3762) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 156. 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 (G3762) 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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