Gloss
no, not, not at all, in no way, (with {3590}) absolutely not. At the beginning of a Greek question, it anticipates a positive response
Forms of the word
Dictionary
οὐ, οὐκ, οὐχ
Greek transliteration
ou
Simplified transliteration
ou
Numbers
Strong's number
3756
GK Number
4024
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
1623
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
adverb
Definition
negative adverb, originally the gen. of ὅς, spelled οὐκ if followed by a word beginning with a vowel and a smooth breathing, οὐχ if followed by a vowel and rough breathing, not, no, Mt. 5:37; 12:43; 23:37; for the peculiarities of its usage (especially as distinct from μή) consult a grammar
Greek-English Concordance for οὐ
| Hebrews 13:5 | Your conduct must be free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for God himself has said, “I will never (ou | οὐ | particle) leave you; never (ou | οὐ | particle) will I forsake you.” |
| Hebrews 13:6 | So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, I will not (ou | οὐ | particle) be afraid. What can man do to me?” |
| Hebrews 13:9 | Do not be swept off your feet by all sorts of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not (ou | οὐ | particle) by foods, with which their adherents are not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) benefited. |
| Hebrews 13:10 | We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle do not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) have the right to eat. |
| Hebrews 13:14 | For here we have no (ou | οὐ | particle) permanent city, but we are looking forward to the city that is to come. |
| James 1:17 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) variation or shadow caused by change. |
| James 1:20 | For the anger of man does not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) bring about the righteousness that God requires. |
| James 1:23 | For if someone is a hearer of the word and not (ou | οὐ | particle) a doer, he is like a person who looks at his natural face in a mirror; |
| James 1:25 | But the person who looks intently into the perfect law, the law that provides liberty, and continues in it, not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer — he will be blessed in his doing. |
| James 2:4 | have you not (ou | οὐ | particle) made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? |
| James 2:5 | Listen, my dear brothers! Did not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) God choose those whom the world considers poor to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him? |
| James 2:6 | But you have dishonored the poor! Is it not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) the rich who oppress you? And are not they the ones who drag you into court? |
| James 2:7 | Are they not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) the ones who are blaspheming the honorable name by which you were called? |
| James 2:11 | For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not (ou | οὐ | particle) commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. |
| James 2:21 | Was not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? |
| James 2:24 | You see that a person is justified by works and not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) by faith alone. |
| James 2:25 | And in the same way was not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she took in the spies and sent them out by another way? |
| James 3:2 | For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not (ou | οὐ | particle) stumble in what he says, he is a mature individual, able to bridle his whole body as well. |
| James 3:10 | From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not (ou | οὐ | particle) happen. |
| James 3:15 | This is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. |
| James 4:1 | What accounts for the quarrels and disputes among you? Is it not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) this — your desires that are at war in your members? |
| James 4:2 | You desire and do not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) have; you murder and envy and cannot (ou | οὐ | particle) obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) have because you do not ask. |
| James 4:3 | You ask and do not (ou | οὐ | particle) receive because you ask for the wrong reason, that you can spend it on your pleasures. |
| James 4:4 | You adulterous people! Do you not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. |
| James 4:11 | Do not speak against one another, my brothers. Whoever speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) a doer of the law but a judge of it. |
