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 16:11 So no (mē | μή | particle) one should treat him with contempt. Help him continue his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers.
2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should no longer (mē | μή | particle) trust in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead.
2 Corinthians 2:1 So I decided this within myself, not (mē | μή | particle) to come to you again with sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:2 For if I cause you sorrow, then who is there to make me glad except the one made sorrowful by me?
2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this very thing so that when I came, I would not (mē | μή | particle) have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 2:5 But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not for me, but in some measure — not (mē | μή | particle) to overstate the case — for all of you.
2 Corinthians 2:7 so that you should rather forgive and console him, lest (mē | μή | conj) he be swallowed up by excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:11 lest we be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not unaware of his intentions.
2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I could not (mē | μή | particle) find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 3:1 Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? We do not (mē | μή | particle) need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do (mē | μή | particle) we (mē | μή | particle)?
2 Corinthians 3:7 Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones, came with such glory that the Israelites were unable (mē | μή | particle) to gaze steadily into the face of Moses due to the glory of his face, fading as it was,
2 Corinthians 3:13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not (mē | μή | particle) gaze at the end of what was fading away.
2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were closed. For until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. Since the veil is not (mē | μή | particle) removed, it is clear that only in Christ is it taken away.
2 Corinthians 4:2 But we have renounced shameful hidden deeds. We do not (mē | μή | particle) practice cunning, nor do we tamper with the word of God, but by the open declaration of truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot (mē | μή | particle) see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay pots, so that the surpassing power belongs to God and does not (mē | μή | particle) come from us.
2 Corinthians 4:18 as we look not (mē | μή | particle) on what can be seen, but on the unseen (mē | μή | particle); for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot (mē | μή | particle) be seen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:12 For we are not again recommending ourselves to you but giving you an occasion to boast on our behalf, so that you may be able to answer those who boast of what is seen and not (mē | μή | particle) of what is in the heart.
2 Corinthians 5:19 that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not (mē | μή | particle) counting their trespasses against them. And he has entrusted us with the message of reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:21 He made him who knew no (mē | μή | particle) sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 6:1 Thus as coworkers with him, we urge you not (mē | μή | particle) to receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 6:3 We do not put a stumbling block in anyone’s way, so that our ministry may not (mē | μή | particle) be faulted.
2 Corinthians 6:9 as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying, and yet — look! — we continue to live; as scourged, and yet not (mē | μή | particle) killed;
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not (mē | μή | particle) be unevenly yoked with unbelievers; for what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore, “come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord, and “touch no (mē | μή | particle) unclean thing; then I will receive you,