Vocabulary Form
μή
Definition

not, lest

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
1042
GK
3590
Mnemonics

He may or may not!

Verse

All do μή speak in tongues, do they? (1 Cor 12:29)

Notes

Has the same basic meaning as οὐ 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.