οὔτε (οὐ and τέ), an adjunctive negative conjunction (from Homer down) (differing fr., μήτε as οὐ does from μή (which see ad at the beginning), and from οὐδέ as μήτε does from μηδέ; see μήτε and οὐδέ), neither; and not. 1. Examples in which οὔτε stands singly: a. οὐ ... οὔτε, Rev_12:8 Rec. (where G L T Tr WH οὐδέ); Rev_20:4 R G (where L T Tr WH οὐδέ); οὐδείς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι τό βιβλίον οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό, Rev_5:4; cf. Winers Grammar, 491 (457); Buttmann, 367 (315); οὐ ... οὐδέ ... οὔτε, 1Th_2:3 R G (where L T Tr WH more correctly οὐδέ) (Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, 368 (315)); οὐδέ ... οὔτε (so that οὔτε answers only to the οὐ in οὐδέ), Gal_1:12 R G T WH text (Winers Grammar, 492 (458); Buttmann, 366 (314)). b. οὔτε ... καί, like Latinneque ...et, neither ... and: Joh_4:11; 3Jn_1:10 (Euripides, Iph. T. 591; but the more common Greek usage was οὐ ... τέ, cf. Klotz ad Devar. 2:2, p. 714; Passow, under the word, B. 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 4); Winers Grammar, § 55, 7; (Buttmann, § 149, 13 c.)). c. By a solecism οὔτε is put for οὐδέ, not ... even: 1Co_3:2 Rec. (where G L T Tr WH οὐδέ) (Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, 367 (315); § 149, 13 f.); Mar_5:3 R G (where L T Tr WH have restored οὐδέ (Winers Grammar, 490 (456); Buttmann, as above)); Luk_12:26 R G (where L T Tr WH οὐδέ (Winers Grammar, as above and 478 (445); Buttmann, 347 (298))); οὔτε μετενόησαν, Rev_9:20 R L Tr (where G WH text οὐ, T οὐδέ not ... even; WH marginal reading οὔτε or οὐδέ (cf. Buttmann, 367 (315))); after the question μή δύναται ... σῦκα; follows οὔτε ἁλυκόν γλυκύ ποιῆσαι ὕδωρ, Jas_3:12 G L T Tr WH (as though οὔτε δύναται ... σῦκα had previously been in the writer's mind (cf. Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, as above)). 2. used twice or more, neither ... nor (Latinnec ...nec;neque ...neque): Mat_6:20; Mat_22:30; Mar_12:25; (Mar_14:68 L text T Tr WH); Luk_14:35 (34); Joh_4:21; Joh_5:37; Joh_8:19; Joh_9:3; Act_15:10; Act_19:37; Act_25:8; Act_28:21; Rom_8:38 f (where οὔτε occurs ten times); 1Co_3:7; 1Co_6:9 f; (οὔτε eight times (yet T WH Tr marginal reading the eighth time οὐ)); ; Gal_5:6; Gal_6:15; 1Th_2:6; Rev_3:15; Rev_9:20; Rev_21:4; οὔτε ... οὔτε ... οὐδέ (German auchnicht, also not), L Tr WH in Luk_20:35 f, and L T Tr marginal reading WH in Act_24:12 f; cf. Winers Grammar, 491 (457f); Buttmann, 368 (315) note.

οὔτε oute 87x neither, nor, Luk_20:36 ; οὔτε ... οὔτε , or οὐτὲ ... οὔτε , neither ... nor, Luk_20:35 ; Gal_1:12 ; in NT also used singly in the sense of οὐδέ , not even, Mar_5:3 ; Luk_12:26 ; 1Co_3:2

οὔτε , negative particle, related to μήτε as οὐ to μή , and not, neither, nor: οὐδεὶς . . . οὔτε , Rev_5:4 ; οὐδὲ . . . οὔτε , Gal_1:12 ; οὔτε . . . καί , Joh_4:11 ; after a question with μή interrog., Jas_3:12 ; οὔτε . . . οὔτε , neither . . . nor, Mat_6:20 , Mar_12:25 , Joh_4:21 , Act_15:10 , Rom_8:38-39 , Gal_5:6 , al.

οὔτε [page 467] P Petr III. 53 ( r ) .6 (iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 45) οὐκ οἶ ]μαί σε ἀγνοεῖν οὔτ [ε . . .. ἀ ]π̣ε̣σχίσθην ἀπο̣̣ σ̣ο̣ῦ . . .. , P Oxy XIV. 1641 .6 (a loan with right of habitation A.D. 68) οὐκ οὔσης με οὔτ᾽ ἄλλῳ οὐδενὶ ἐξουσίας ἐκβάλλιν σε οὐδὲ τοὺς παρὰ σοῦ ἐκ τοῦ ἐνοικισμοῦ , neither I nor any one else having the right to expel you or your agents from the habitation (Edd.), ib. 1775 .2 (iv/A.D.) οὐχ ὤκνησα οὔτε πάλιν ἠμέλησα . A good ex. of οὔτε . . . οὔτε is afforded by the well-known boy s letter, P Oxy I. 119 .5 (ii/iii A.D.) (= Selections , p. 103), where the boy threatens his father that if he does not take him to Alexandria οὐ μὴ γράψω σε ἐπιστολήν , οὔτε λαλῶ σε , οὔτε υἱγένω σε εἶτα , I won t write you a letter, or speak to you, or wish you health : cf. also BGU II. 530 .9 f. (i/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 60 f.) οὔτε ἀντέγραψας οὔτε ἦλθας , you neither answered nor came.

οὔτε [Etym: οὐ τε] "and not", Il. , Hdt. mostly repeated, οὔτε . . , οὔτε . . , "neither . . , nor . ." , Lat. neque . . , neque . . , Hom. , etc.: —οὔτε may be foll. by a posit. clause with τε, Lat. neque . . , et . . , οὔτ᾽ αὐτὸς κτενέει, ἀπό τ᾽ ἄλλους πάντας ἐρύξει he will "both not" kill "and" will defend, Il. :—the former οὔτε is sometimes omitted, ναυσὶ δ᾽ οὔτε πεζός [neither] by sea "nor" by land, Pind.

οὔτε negative particle, related to μήτε as οὐ to μή, and not, neither, nor: οὐδεὶς . . . οὔτε, Rev.5:4; οὐδὲ . . . οὔτε, Gal.1:12; οὔτε . . . καί, Jhn.4:11; after a question with μή interrog., Jas.3:12; οὔτε . . . οὔτε, neither . . . nor, Mat.6:20, Mrk.12:25, Jhn.4:21, Act.15:10, Rom.8:38-39, Gal.5:6, al (AS)