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

2 Peter 2:21 For it would have been better for them never (mē | μή | particle) to have come to know the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.
2 Peter 3:8 But do not (mē | μή | particle) let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a single day.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not (mē | μή | particle) willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, dear friends, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard that you are not (mē | μή | particle) led astray by the error of these lawless people and fall from your stable position.
1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not (mē | μή | particle) sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.
1 John 2:4 The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not (mē | μή | particle) keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:15 Do not (mē | μή | particle) love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:28 And now, dear children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not (mē | μή | particle) be put to shame in his presence when he comes.
1 John 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother.
1 John 3:13 So do not (mē | μή | particle) be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) love remains in the realm of death.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love, not (mē | μή | particle) in word or speech but in action and truth.
1 John 3:21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not (mē | μή | particle) condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not (mē | μή | particle) believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:3 but every spirit that does not (mē | μή | particle) confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:8 The person who does not (mē | μή | particle) love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 5:5 Who is it that conquers the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
1 John 5:12 The one who has the Son has life; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:16 If someone sees his brother committing a sin that does not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death, he should ask and God will give him life — to those whose sins do not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that he should pray about that.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not (mē | μή | particle) confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist!
2 John 1:8 Be on your guard, so that we may not (mē | μή | particle) lose the things we worked for but may receive a full reward.
2 John 1:9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not (mē | μή | particle) continue in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.