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

Acts 5:26 Then the captain went with the officers and brought them, but not with force, for they feared the people, lest (mē | μή | conj) they be stoned.
Acts 5:28 saying, “We gave you a strict order to stop (mē | μή | particle) teaching in this name. Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring on us the blood of this man.”
Acts 5:40 so summoning the apostles, they beat them and ordered them not (mē | μή | particle) to speak in the name of Jesus, and they released them.
Acts 7:19 He took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers, making them expose their infants, so that they would not (mē | μή | particle) be kept alive.
Acts 7:28 Do you want to kill me as yesterday you killed the Egyptian?’
Acts 7:42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 7:60 And falling to his knees he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not (mē | μή | particle) hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Acts 8:31 And he said, “How could I unless someone guide me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
Acts 9:9 And he was three days without (mē | μή | particle) sight and neither ate nor drank anything.
Acts 9:26 When he came to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not (mē | μή | particle) believing that he was a disciple.
Acts 9:38 Since Lydda is near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him urging him, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) delay in coming to us.”
Acts 10:15 And a voice came again, a second time, to him, “What God has made clean, you must not (mē | μή | particle) consider common.”
Acts 10:47 “Surely no one is able to withhold water so that these people cannot (mē | μή | particle) be baptized who received the Holy Spirit just as we did,
Acts 11:9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not (mē | μή | particle) consider common.’
Acts 11:19 Now those who were scattered because of the persecution, which came to pass over Stephen, made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews only.
Acts 12:19 And after Herod searched for him and could not (mē | μή | particle) find him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
Acts 13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind, not (mē | μή | particle) seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately fell upon him mist and darkness, and as he went about he sought someone to lead him by the hand.
Acts 13:40 Take care then that what was spoken in the prophets not (mē | μή | conj) happen to you.
Acts 13:41 ‘Look, you scoffers; be amazed and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work you will not believe, even though someone should tell you in detail.’”
Acts 14:18 Even saying these things, they barely restrained the crowds from (mē | μή | particle) offering sacrifice to them.
Acts 15:1 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 15:19 Therefore I conclude that we should not (mē | μή | particle) trouble those from the Gentiles who are turning to God,
Acts 15:38 But Paul did not (mē | μή | particle) think it wise to take with them this one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not (mē | μή | particle) gone with them to the work.
Acts 17:6 But when they could not (mē | μή | particle) find them, they dragged Jason and some fellow believers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
Acts 18:9 And the Lord said to Paul during the night in a vision, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) be afraid, but go on speaking and do not (mē | μή | particle) be silent,