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

John 18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has given me?”
John 18:17 The servant girl who kept watch at the door said to Peter, “You are not (mē | μή | particle) one of that man’s disciples, are (mē | μή | particle) you?” (mē | μή | particle) He answered, “I am not.”
John 18:25 Now Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself, so they said to him, “You are not (mē | μή | particle) one of his disciples, are (mē | μή | particle) you?” (mē | μή | particle) Peter denied it and said, “I am not!”
John 18:28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early, and they did not go into the governor’s headquarters so that they would not (mē | μή | particle) be defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.
John 18:30 They replied to him, saying, “If this man were not (mē | μή | particle) doing something wrong, we would not have handed him over to you.”
John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my subjects would be fighting to prevent (mē | μή | particle) me from being handed over to the Jews; but as it is my kingdom is not from here.”
John 18:40 They shouted back, saying, “Not (mē | μή | particle) that man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.
John 19:11 Jesus said, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. That is why the man who handed me over to you has a greater sin.”
John 19:15 But they shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
John 19:21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”
John 19:24 So they said to one another, “Let us not (mē | μή | particle) tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it” — that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things.
John 19:31 Then, since it was the day of Preparation, so that the bodies would not (mē | μή | particle) remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and their bodies taken down.
John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20:25 So the other disciples kept saying to him, “We have seen the Master!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the wound left by the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!”
John 20:27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and examine my hands; and reach out your hand, and put it into my side. Do not (mē | μή | particle) continue in unbelief, but believe.”
John 20:29 Jesus said to them, “You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who have not (mē | μή | particle) seen me, yet believe.”
John 21:5 So Jesus called to them, “Boys, you have not (mē | μή | particle) caught any fish, have (mē | μή | particle) you?” (mē | μή | particle) They called back to “No.”
Acts 1:4 While he was with them, he ordered them not (mē | μή | particle) to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
Acts 1:20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, ‘Let his house become deserted, and let there be no (mē | μή | particle) one living in it’; and ‘Let another take over his responsibilities.’
Acts 2:25 For David says regarding him, ‘I foresaw the Lord before me always, for he is at my right hand that I may not (mē | μή | particle) be shaken;
Acts 3:23 And it will be that every soul who does not (mē | μή | particle) obey that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 4:17 But that it may spread no (mē | μή | particle) further among the people, let us warn them no longer to speak in this name to anyone among men.”
Acts 4:18 So they called them and ordered them not (mē | μή | particle) to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
Acts 4:20 for we cannot help (mē | μή | particle) speaking of the things we have seen and heard.”
Acts 5:7 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, unaware of (mē | μή | particle) what had happened.