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 27:31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “If these men do not (mē | μή | particle) remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Acts 27:42 It was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none (mē | μή | conj) could escape by swimming away.
Acts 28:26 “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive”;
Romans 1:28 And as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do things that ought not (mē | μή | particle) to be done.
Romans 2:14 whenever the Gentiles, who do not (mē | μή | particle) have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these, although they do not (mē | μή | particle) have the law, are a law to themselves.
Romans 2:21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against (mē | μή | particle) stealing, do you steal?
Romans 2:22 You who tell others not (mē | μή | particle) to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 3:3 But what if some were unfaithful, will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
Romans 3:4 By no means! (mē | μή | particle) Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written, “so that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.”
Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I use a human argument!)
Romans 3:6 By no means! (mē | μή | particle) For otherwise how could God judge the world?
Romans 3:8 And why not (mē | μή | particle) say (as some slanderously claim that we are saying), “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is well deserved!
Romans 3:31 Do we therefore nullify the law through faith? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) work, but entrusts himself to the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”
Romans 4:17 As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our father, in the presence of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being the things that do not (mē | μή | particle) exist.
Romans 4:19 Not (mē | μή | particle) being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
Romans 5:13 For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged when there is no (mē | μή | particle) law.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sinning was not (mē | μή | particle) like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the coming one.
Romans 6:2 By no means! (mē | μή | particle) How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
Romans 6:12 Therefore do not (mē | μή | particle) let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Romans 6:15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! (mē | μή | particle)
Romans 7:3 Accordingly, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not (mē | μή | particle) an adulteress if she marries another man.
Romans 7:7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good so that sin, through the commandment, might be sinful beyond measure