G3364 οὐ μή (ou mḗ)

οὐ before a consonant, οὐκ before a vowel with a smooth breathing, and ody before an aspirated vowel ; but sometimes in the best codd. οὐχ occurs even before a smooth breathing; accordingly LT WH mrg. have adopted οὐχ ἰδού, Acts ii. 7; LT οὐχ ᾿Ιουδαϊκῶς, Gal. ii. 14 (see WH. Introd. § 409); L οὐχ ὀλίγος, Acts xix. 23; οὐχ ἠγάπησαν, Rev. xii. 11; and contrariwise οὐκ before an aspirate, as οὐκ ἕστηκεν, Jn. viii. 44 T; [οὐκ ἕνεκεν, 2 Co. vii. 12 T]; (οὐκ εὗρον, Lk. xxiv. 3; [οὐκ ὑπάρχει, Acts iii. 6] in cod. x [alsoC*; ef. cod. Alex. in 1 ἔβαν. iv. 2,12; Job xix. 16; xxxviiil. 11, 26]); cf. W. $5, 14d. 14; Β. τ; [A. v. Schiitz, Hist. Alphab. Att., Berol. 1875, pp: 54-58 ; Sophocles, Hist. of Grk. Alphab., 1st ed. 1848, p- 64 sq. (on the breathing); Tdf Sept., ed. 4, Proleg. pp: Xxxiii. xxxiv.; Scrivener, Collation ete., 2d ed., p. lv. no. 9; id. cod. Bezae p. xlvii. no. 11 (ef. p. xlii. no. 5); Kuenen and Cobet, N. T. ete. p. Ixxxvii. sq.; Τὰ Proleg. p- £0sq.; WH. Intr. §§ 405 sqq., and App. p. 143 sq.]; Sept. for 85, ΤᾺΝ, ΤΣ; a particle of negation, not (how it differs fr. μή has been explained in μή, ad init.) ; it is used 1. absol. and accented, οὔ, nay, no, [ W. 476 (444)]: in answers, ὁ δέ φησιν: ov, Mt. xiii. 29; ἀπεκρίθη - ov, Jn. i. 21; [xxi. 5], ef. vii. 12; repeated, od οὔ, it strengthens the negation, nay, nay, by no means, Mt. ν. 37; ἤτω ὑμῶν τὸ οὗ οὔ, let your denial be truthful, Jas. ν. 12; on 2 Co. i. 17-19, see vai. 2. It is joined to other words, —to a finite verb, simply to deny that what is declared in the verb applies to the subject of the sentence: Mt. i. 25 (οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν αὐτήν); Mk. iii. 25; Lk. vi. 43; Jn. x. 28; Acts vii. 5; Ro. i. 16, and cause » ou times without number. It has the same force when conjoined to participles: ὡς οὐκ ἀέρα δέρων, 1 Co, ix. 26; οὐκ ὄντος αὐτῷ τέκνου, at the time when he had no child, Acts vii. 5 (μὴ ὄντος would be, although he had no child); add, Ro. viii. 20; 1Co.iv.14; 2 Co. iv. 8; Gal. iv. 8,27; Col. ii. 19; Phil. iii. 3; 1160. xi. 85; 1 Pet. i. 8; 6... οὐκ dv ποιμήν, Jn. x. 12 (where ace. to class. usage μή must have been employed, because such a person is imagined as is not a shepherd; [ef. B. 351 (301) and μή; 1. ὃ Ὁ.1). in relative sentences: εἰσὶν... τινὲς of οὐ πιστεύουσιν, Jn. vi. 01; add, Mt. χ. 88; xii. 2; Lk. vi. 2; Ro. xv. 21; Gal. ili. 10, ete.; οὐκ ἔστιν ὅς and οὐδέν ἐστιν 6 foll. by a fut.: Mt. x. 26; Lk. viii. 17; xii. 2; ris ἐστιν, ὃς ov foll. by a pres. indic.: Acts xix. 35; Ieb. xii. 7; ef. W. 481 (448); B. 355 (305); in statements introduced by ὅτι after verbs of understanding, perceiving, saying, etc.: Jn. v.425 viii. 55, ete.; ὅτι οὐκ (where οὐκ is pleonastic) after ἀρνεῖσθαι, 1 Jn. ii. 22; ef. B.§ 148,13; [W. § 65, 2 8.];—to an infin., where μή might have been expected: τίς ἔτι χρεία κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισ. ἕτερον ἀνίστασθαι ἱερέα καὶ οὐ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν ᾿Ααρὼν λέγεσθαι, Heb. vii. 11 (where the difficulty is hardly removed by saying [e. g. with W. 482 (449) ] that od belongs only to κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Aap., not to the infin.). it serves to deny other parts of statements: οὐκ ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου, 1 Co. i. 17; οὐ μέλανι, οὐκ ἐν πλαξὶ λιθίναις, 2 Co. iii. 3, and many other exx.;—to deny the object, ἔλεος (RG ἔλεον) θέλω, οὐ θυσίαν, Mt. ix. 13; xii. 7; οὐκ ἐμὲ δέχεται, Mk. ix. 37. It blends with the term to which it is prefixed into a single and that an aflirmative idea [W. 476 (444); cf. B. 347 (298) ]; as, οὐκ ἐάω, to prevent, hinder, Acts xvi. 7; xix. 30, (cf., on this phrase, Herm. ad Vig. p. 887 sq.) 3 οὐκ ἔχω, to be poor, Mt. xiii. 12; Mk. iv. 25, (see ἔχω, I. 2a. p- 266"); τὰ οὐκ ἀνήκοντα [or ἃ οὐκ ἀνῆκεν, LT Tr WH], unseemly, dishonorable, Eph. v. 4 (see μή, I. 5 ἃ. fin. p. 410°; [ef. B. § 148, 7a.; W. 486 (452)]); often so as to form a litotes; as, οὐκ ἀγνοέω, to know well, 2 Co. ii. 11 (Sap. xii. 10) ; οὐκ ὀλίγοι, not a few, i. e. very many, Acts xvii. 4, 12; xix. 23 sq.; xv. 2; xiv. 28; xxvii. 20; οὗ πολλαὶ ἡμέραι, a few days, Lk. xv. 13; Jn. ii. 12; Actsi 5; ov πολύ, Acts xxvii. 14; οὐ μετρίως, Acts xx. 12; οὐκ ἄσημος, not undistinguished [A. V. no mean ete.], Acts Xxi. 395 οὐκ ἐκ μέτρου, In. iii. 84. it serves to limit the term to which it is joined: οὐ πάντως, not altogether, not entirely (see πάντως, ο. 3); οὐ mas, not any and every one, Mt. vii. 21; plur. οὐ πάντες, not all, Mt. xix. 11; Ro. ix. 6; x.16; οὐ πᾶσα σάρξ, not every kind of flesh, 1 Co. xv. 39; ov παντὶ τῷ λαῷ, not to all the people, Acts x. 41; on the other hand, when οὐ is joined to the verb, πᾶς ον οὐ must be rendered πὸ one, no, (as in Hebrew, now 53 SND uNOWANT Nee 3: οἵ. Winer, Lex. Hebr. et Chald. p. 513 sq.): Lk. 1.87; Eph. v. 5; 1 Jn. ii. 21; Rev. xxii. 3; πᾶσα odp&...ov w. a verb, no flesh, no mortal, Mt. xxiv. 22; Mk. xiii. 20; Ro. iii. 20; Gal. ii 16; cf. W.§ 26,1; [B.121(106)]. Joined to a noun it denies and annuls the idea of the noun; as, τὸν οὗ λαόν, a people that is not a people (Germ. ein Nichtvolk, a no-people), Ro. ix. 25, cf. 1 Pet. ii. 10; ἐπ᾽ οὐκ ἔθνει, ou 461 [R. V. with that which is no nation], Ro. x. 19 (so Dy x; by x5, a no-god, Deut. xxxii. 21; py x5, α not-wood, Is. x. 15; οὐκ ἀρχιερεύς, 2 Mace. iv. 13; ἡ ov διάλυσις, Thue. 1, 137, 4; ἡ οὐ περιτείχισις 3, 95, 2; ἡ οὐκ ἐξουσία 5, 50, 3; 80 ἀπειροσύναν ... κοὐκ ἀπόδειξιν, Eur. Hippol. 196, and other exx. in Grk. writ.; non sutor, Hor. sat. 2, 3, 106; non corpus, Cie. acad. 1, 39 fin.); cf. W. 476 (444); [B. § 148, 9]; ἡ οὐκ ἠγαπημένη, Ro. ix. 25; οἱ οὐκ ἤλεημένοι, 1 Pet. ii. 10. 3. followed by another negative, a. it strengthens the negation: οὐ κρίνω οὐδένα, Jn. viii. 15; add, Mk. v. 37; 2 Co. xi. 9 (8); οὗ οὐκ ἦν οὐδέπω οὐδεὶς κείμενος, Lk. xxiii. 53 [see οὐδέπω] ; οὐκ - - οὐδέν, nothing at all, Lk. iv. 2; Jn. vi. 63; χὶ. 49; xii. 19; xv. 55 οὐ μέλει σοι περὶ οὐδενός, Mt. xxii. 16 ; ok... οὐκέτι, Acts viii. 39 ; cf. Matthiae § 609, 3; Kiihner ii. § 516; W. § 55, 9b.; [B. § 148, 11]. b. as in Latin, it changes a negation into an affirmation (cf. Matthiae § 609, 2; Klotz ad Devar. ii. 2 p. 695 sq.; W.§55,9a.; B.§ 148, 12); οὐ mapa τοῦτο οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, not on this account is it not of the body, i. 6. it belongs to the body, does not cease to be of the body, 1 Co. xii. 15; οὐ duvaμεθα ἃ εἴδομεν καὶ ἠκούσαμεν μὴ λαλεῖν, we are unable not to speak [A.V. we cannot but speak], Acts iv. 20. 4. Τὸ is used in disjunctive statements where one thing is denied that another may be established [W. § 55, 8; cf. B. 356 (306)]: ove... ἀλλά, Lk. viii. 52; xxiv. 6 [WH reject the cl.]; Jn. i. 33; vii. 10, 12, 16; viii. 49; Acts x. 41; Ro. viii. 20; 1 Co. xv. 10; 2 Co. iii. 3; viii. 5; Heb. ii. 16, ete.; see ἀλλά, 11. 1; οὐχ iva... ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα, Jn. iii. 17; οὐχ va... ἀλλά, Jn. vi. 38; ov μόνον . . ἀλλὰ καί, see ἀλλά, II. 1 and μόνος, 2; οὐκ... εἰ μή, see εἰ, III. 8c. p. 171°; οὐ μή w. subjune. aor. foll. by εἰ py, Rev. xxi. 27 [see εἰ as above, β.1. 5: Τὸ 15 joined to other particles: οὐ μή, not at all, by no means, surely not, in no wise, see μή, 1V.; οὐ μηκέτι w. aor. subjune. Mt. xxi. 19 LT Trmrg. WH. μὴ οὐ, where μή is interrog. (Lat. num) and οὐ negative (ef. B. 248 (214), 354 (304); W.511 (476)]: Ro. x. 18 sq.; 1 Co. ix. 4 sq.; xi. 22. εἰ od, see εἰ, III. 11 p. 172". οὐ γάρ (see yap, I. p- 109°), Acts xvi. 37. 6. Asin Hebr. x5 w. impé., so in bibl. Grk. οὐ w. 2 pers. fut. is used in emphatic prohibition (in prof. auth. it is milder; οἵ. W. § 43, 5.3; also 501 sq. (467); [B. § 139, 64]; Fritzsche on Mt. Ρ- 259 sq. [ef. p. 252 sq.] thinks otherwise, but not correctly): Mt. vi. 5; and besides in the moral precepts of the O. T., Mt. iv. 7; xix.18; Lk.iv.12; Acts xxiii. 5; Ro. vii. 7; xiii. 9. 7. ov is used interrogatively — when an affirmative answer is expected (Lat. nonne; [W. § 57, 3a.; B. 247 (213)]): Mt. vi. 26, 30; xvii. 24; Mk. iv. 21; xii. 24; Lk. xi. 40; Jn. iv. 35; vii. 25; Acts ix. 21; Ro. ix. 21; 1 Co. ix. 1,6 sq.12; Jas. ii. 4, and often; οὐκ οἴδατε xrA.; and the like, see εἴδω, IT. 1 p. 174"; ἀλλ᾽ ov, Heb. iii. 16 (see ἀλλά, [. 10 p. 28"); οὐκ ἀποκρίνῃ οὐδέν; answerest thou nothing at all? Mk. xiv. 60; xv. 4; where an exclamation of reproach or wonder, which denies directly, may take the place of a negative question: Mk. iv. 13, 38; Lk. xvii. 18; Acts xiii. 10 [οἵ. B. § 139, 65]; xxi. 88 (on which see ἄρα, 1); ef. W. u.s.; οὐ μὴ πίω αὐτό; shall I not drink it? Jn. xviii. 11; ef. W. p. 512 (477); [ef. B. § 139, 2]. ova, Tdf. ova [see Proleg. p. 101; cf. Chandler § 892], ah! ha! an interjection of wonder and amazement: Epict. diss. 3, 22, 34; 3, 23,24; Dio Cass. 63, 20; called . out by the overthrow of a boastful adversary, Mk. xv. 29.

ου to make the voyage” (Edd.), and P Amh II. 78?! (a.p. 184) τοιαύτης ο[ὖ]ν αὐθαδίας ἐν αὐτῷ οὔσης οὐ δυνάμενος [ἐν]καρτερεῖν ἐπιδίδωμι, ‘“ his audacity having reached this pitch I can endure no longer and present this petition.” See further Proleg. p. 231 f. In support of the translation ‘‘ I determined not to know” in 1 Cor 2, we may cite P Par 2657 (B.c. 163) (= UPZi. Ρ-. 248) οὐκ ἐκρίναμεν καταχωρῆσαι, ‘we determined not to record,” P Tebt I. 124° (c. B.c. 118) οὐκ (ἐκδρίναμεν ἐξαρ[ιθ]μεῖ[σθαι, “we determined not to be counted,” and the classical formula in P Hamb I. 27° (B.c. 250 (249)) οὐκ ἔφη εἰδέναι, ‘he said that he did not know.” The origin of the double negative οὐ μή is fully discussed by Moulton Pro/eg. p. 187 ff. When we pass to its actual occurrences in the NT, we find that these for the most part are found in passages derived from the OT and in the Sayings of our Lord, which, therefore, have Semitic originals. This corresponds with the rarity of οὐ μή in the papyri. See, however, the following passages—P Par 4085 (B.c. 164-158) (= Witkowski”, p. 72) γίνωσκε σαφῶς ὅτι... {πρὸς σὲ ov μὴ εἰσέλθω», P Oxy 1. 119% 14% (ii/iii A.D.) (= Selections, p. 103) ἢ οὐ θέλις ἀπενέκκειν (Δ ἀπενέγκαι) per’ ἐσοῦ εἰς ᾿Αλεξανδρίαν, οὐ μὴ γράψω σε ἐπιστολήν «ον ἂμ μὴ πέμψῃς, οὐ μὴ φάγω, οὐ μὴ πείνω, “if you refuse to take me along with you to Alexandria, I won’t write you a letter. . . If you do not send, I won’t eat, I won't drink,”’ P Leid Wviii- 9 (ii/iii a.p.) (= II. p. 107) ἐὰν θέλῃς yove(= at)kas ov μὴ σχεθῆναι ὑπὸ ἄλλου ἀνδρός, P Oxy VI. 903'° (iv/A.p.) a man declares regarding his wife ἀπεντεῦθεν οὐ μὴ κρύψω aiti(v> πάσας pov τὰς κλεῖς, ‘“henceforward I shall not hide all my keys from her,” and the magic P Lond 4677 (iv/a.p.) (= 1. p. 73) οὐ μὴ ἐάσω. For the still stronger negative οὐδ᾽ οὐ μή Radermacher (Gr. p. 172) cites Wessely Papyrorum scripturae Graecae specimina XXVI.: τῷ μεγίστῳ κραταιῷ θεῷ Σιοκνοπαίῳ παρὰ ᾿Ασκληπιάδου τοῦ ᾿Αρείου. εἰ οὐ δίδοταί μοι συμβιῶσαι Ταπεθευτι Μαρρειους οὐδ᾽ οὐ μὴ γένηταί μοι γυνή, ὑπόδειξόν μοι καὶ κύρωσόν μοι τοῦτο τὸ γραπτόν. πρώην δ᾽ Av Ταπεθευς ’Qplwvos γυνή. Cf. also P Petr ΤΙ. 13(19)* (B.C. 258-253) τοῦτο {δ᾽ ἔχε τῆι δια[νοία]ι, ὅτι οὐθέν σοι μὴ γενηθῆι λυπηρόν, P Alex 4! (iii/B.c.) (= Witkowski’, Ρ. 52) οὐδείς σε ἀνθρώπων μὴ ὠφειλήσηι, and P Oxy XII. 1483!° (ii/iii A.D.) ἐξωδίασας τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὧν οὐδὲ ts μὴ παρεδέξατο τιμήν, ‘‘you have spent upon them things of which absolutely no one has received the value” (Edd.). In a legal process of the 2™4 half of iv/A.D. published in Archiv i. p. 293 ff. we have 1:9 6 δὲ ἀδελφὸς Φιλάδελφος ὃς καὶ ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἐστὶν καὶ οὐ μετ᾽ οὐ πολὺ ἥξει, where the phrase οὐ μετ᾽ οὐ πολύ can only mean ‘‘after no long time”: cf. BGU II. 61414 (a.p. 216), and Gradenwitz Einfiihrung i. p. 40 n.1 In MGr (Pontic) ᾿κί is used for “note ov. For this relative adverb = ‘‘where,’’ cf. PSI VI. 62017 (ili/B.C.) τὸ ταμιεῖον οὗ ἔκειτο ὁ. . οἶνος, “the store-house where the wine was placed,” P Tebt I. 1054! (B.c. 103) οὗ ἂν συντάσσηι ἐν] τῆι αὐτῆι κώμηι, “Cat whatever place he may fix in the said village,” P Par 4719 (c. B.c. 153) |

οὐ μή (ou mē) — never. οὐ μή, in independent sentences, is used either in Denial or in Prohibition:

I. in Denial,

I.1. with subjunctive,

I.1. a chiefly of aorist, οὔ τι μὴ ληφθῶ δόλῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.1. b rarely of present, mostly with Verbs expressing possibility or ability, οὐ μὴ δύνηται (variant{δυνήσεται}) [Refs 5th c.BC+], and this has been adopted by most editions; and in [Refs 4th c.BC+] with subjunctive probably arose from the ellipsis of a Verb or phrase expressing fear or apprehension; such words are sometimes expressed, οὐ γὰρ ἦν δεινὸν.. μὴ ἁλῷ κοτε [Refs 5th c.BC+]—Sts. there is no idea of fear, as in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; the construction is freely used after ὅτι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; after ὡς, since, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; after ὥστε, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. with future indicative, οὔ σοι μὴ μεθέψομαί ποτε [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ μὴ δέξονται (variant{δέξωνται}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: or infinitive, εἶπεν.. οὐ μή ποτε.. εὖ πράξειν πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. in Prohibition, οὐ μή is used interrogatively with future indicative (chiefly of the 2 _person_) so as to express a strong prohibition, οὐ μὴ 'ξεγερεῖς τὸν ὕπνῳ κάτοχο; ={μὴ ἐξέγειρε},[Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ μὴ προσοίσεις χεῖρα μηδ᾽ ἅψῃ πέπλων ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ μὴ προσοίσεις χεῖρα βακχεύσεις δ᾽ ἰών;[Refs]

II.2. later οὐ μὴ ἐμπέσω let me not fall, [LXX]

II.3. in questions, οὐ μή, = Latin nonne, ὁ θεὸς οὐ μὴ ποιήσῃ τὴν ἐκδίκησιν τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ ; [NT]

III. in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; seems to mean keep silent and say nothing.., σῖγα being short for σιγήσει and καὶ being omitted: similarly, οὐ σῖγ᾽ ἀνέξει, μηδὲ δειλίαν ἀρῇ; submit silently and do not play the coward, [Refs 5th c.BC+]