οὔτε
neither
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
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Degree
- Negative
- Marks a negative form.
Every verse where G3777 appears — 42 distinct verses across 12 books. 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.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 6:20 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
- Matthew 12:32 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.
- Matthew 22:30 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 12:25 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
- Mark 14:68 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
Luke 5 verses
- Luke 12:24 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
- Luke 12:27 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
- Luke 14:35 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
- Luke 20:35 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
- Luke 20:36 οὔτε conj neg For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
John 5 verses
- John 4:11 οὔτε conj neg The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
- John 4:21 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
- John 5:37 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
- John 8:19 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
- John 9:3 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
Acts 6 verses
- Acts 2:31 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
- Acts 15:10 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Acts 19:37 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
- Acts 24:12 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
- Acts 25:8 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
- Acts 28:21 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 8:38 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Romans 8:39 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 5 verses
- 1 Corinthians 3:7 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg conj neg Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.
- 1 Corinthians 8:8 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
- 1 Corinthians 11:11 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
Galatians 3 verses
- Galatians 1:12 οὔτε conj neg For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 5:6 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- Galatians 6:15 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
1 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 2:5 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
- 1 Thessalonians 2:6 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
James 1 verse
3 John 1 verse
Revelation 7 verses
- Revelation 3:15 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Revelation 3:16 οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
- Revelation 5:3 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.
- Revelation 5:4 οὔτε conj neg And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.
- Revelation 9:20 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
- Revelation 9:21 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
- Revelation 21:4 οὔτε οὔτε οὔτε conj neg conj neg conj neg He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
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.
The Greek verb ουτε centers on the idea of “neither.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 6:20. It appears 42 verses across 12 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. It clusters with ου, μη and ου μη under a shared root. Dig into 42-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3777 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 →
- 42
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 42 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #181
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 181 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 42 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 7 verses 17%
- Acts 6 verses 14%
- Luke 5 verses 12%
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 42 distinct verses.
- Gospels 15 verses · 36%
- Johannine 13 verses · 31%
- Pauline corpus 12 verses · 29%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 26%
- Revelation 7 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 5%
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: Nor 40×, Neither 39×, Yet 5×
- American Standard Version: Nor 49×, Neither 36×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nor 30×, Neither 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nor 52×, Neither 26×, Not 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3777 across 93 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3777 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G3777 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 28 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3777 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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.
- neither, and not
Word origin
Derived from ου (ou) (G3756) — not.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3777, 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
- 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
- ουχι ouchí G3780 not at all
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ουτε appears 50 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18 verses in 9 books.
- 50
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 20:17 οὔτε
- Numbers 21:22 οὔτε
- Deuteronomy 4:28 οὔτε
- Job 3:26 οὔτε
- Psalms 58:4 οὔτε
- Isaiah 1:6 οὔτε
- Jeremiah 15:10 οὔτε
- Ezekiel 24:23 οὔτε
- Daniel 2:43 οὔτε
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3777) 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.
- Exodus 20:17 οὔτε "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
- Numbers 21:22 οὔτε Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.
- Numbers 23:25 οὔτε Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
- Deuteronomy 4:28 οὔτε There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Deuteronomy 5:21 οὔτε "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
- Deuteronomy 31:6 οὔτε Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
- Job 3:26 οὔτε I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."
- Job 15:29 οὔτε He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
- Psalms 58:4 οὔτε Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
- Psalms 74:7 οὔτε They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.
- Isaiah 1:6 οὔτε From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
- Isaiah 30:5 οὔτε They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can't profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- Isaiah 48:8 οὔτε Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
- Jeremiah 15:10 οὔτε Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
- Ezekiel 24:23 οὔτε Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
- Daniel 2:43 οὔτε Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.
- Daniel 3:18 οὔτε But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
- Daniel 6:23 οὔτε Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3777) 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.
