Vocabulary Form
μή
Definition

not, lest

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
1042
GK
3590
Mnemonics

He may or may not!

Notes

Has the same basic meaning as ouj but is used in different situations that we will discuss later.

Biblical Concordance

Luke 22:42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not (mē | μή | particle) my will, but yours be done.”
Luke 22:46 He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not (mē | μή | particle) enter a time of trial.”
Luke 22:67 and said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,
Luke 22:68 and if I question you, you will not answer.
Luke 23:28 Turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not (mē | μή | particle) weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Luke 24:16 but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
Luke 24:23 and not (mē | μή | particle) finding his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.
John 2:16 To those who were selling doves he said, “Take those out of here! Do not (mē | μή | particle) make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
John 3:2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with him.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot (mē | μή | particle) enter into his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can (mē | μή | particle) he?” (mē | μή | particle)
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:7 Do not (mē | μή | particle) be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:13 No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man.
John 3:16 “For this is how God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not (mē | μή | particle) perish but have eternal life.
John 3:18 The one who believes in him is not condemned, but the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) believe is condemned already, because he has not (mē | μή | particle) believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 3:20 For everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:27 John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
John 4:12 Surely you are not (mē | μή | particle) greater than our father Jacob, are (mē | μή | particle) you (mē | μή | particle), who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks?”
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up to eternal life.”
John 4:15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not (mē | μή | particle) be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
John 4:33 Then the disciples began to say to one another, “No (mē | μή | particle) one has brought him something to eat, have (mē | μή | particle) they?” (mē | μή | particle)
John 4:48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”
John 5:14 Later on Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been healed! Do not sin any longer, so that nothing (mē | μή | particle) worse happens to you.”
John 5:19 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise.