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

1 Corinthians 7:29 And I say this, my brothers: the time has grown short. From now on those who have wives should be as though they had none (mē | μή | particle),
1 Corinthians 7:30 and those who mourn as though they were not (mē | μή | particle) mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not (mē | μή | particle) rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no (mē | μή | particle) possessions,
1 Corinthians 7:31 and those who use the world as though they were not (mē | μή | particle) absorbed in it. For the form of this world is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:37 However, the man who stands firm in his resolve is under no (mē | μή | particle) compulsion but has control over his desire, and has determined this in his heart to keep her as his virgin, he will do well.
1 Corinthians 7:38 So then the one who marries his virgin does well, and the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) marry will do even better.
1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore, as to the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol has no genuine reality” and that “there is no God but one.”
1 Corinthians 8:8 Food does not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not (mē | μή | particle) eat, and no better if we do.
1 Corinthians 8:9 But take care that this right of yours does not (mē | μή | conj) become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, again I will never eat meat, lest I cause one of them to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:4 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
1 Corinthians 9:5 Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, as also the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers, and Cephas do?
1 Corinthians 9:6 Or is it only I and Barnabas who have no right to refrain (mē | μή | particle) from working?
1 Corinthians 9:8 Am I saying these things from a merely human point of view? Or does not the Law say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:9 For in the Law of Moses it is written, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” It is not (mē | μή | particle) for oxen that God is concerned, is (mē | μή | particle) it (mē | μή | particle)?
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others have a share in this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but endure all things lest we place some obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:16 If I preach the gospel, I do not have a ground for boasting, for I am compelled to do so. Woe is me if I do not (mē | μή | particle) preach the gospel!
1 Corinthians 9:18 What then is my reward? That when I preach I may present the gospel free of charge, and so not (mē | μή | particle) make full use of my right in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:20 To the Jews I became as a Jew that I might win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not (mē | μή | particle) under the law) that I might win those under the law.
1 Corinthians 9:21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not (mē | μή | particle) free from the law of God but subject to the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
1 Corinthians 9:27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, so that having preached to others I myself should not (mē | μή | conj) be disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10:6 Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we would not (mē | μή | particle) crave evil things, even as they did.
1 Corinthians 10:12 So let the one who thinks he stands watch out lest (mē | μή | conj) he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:13 No trial has overtaken you that is not distinctively human; and God is faithful; he will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear, but with the trial will also provide the way through, so that you will be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians 10:28 However, if someone should say to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not (mē | μή | particle) eat it, for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience —