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

Philemon 1:14 but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your helpfulness might not (mē | μή | particle) be by compulsion but by your own free will.
Philemon 1:19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand — I will pay it back. I could also mention that you owe me your very self!
Hebrews 3:8 do not (mē | μή | particle) harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none (mē | μή | particle) of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not (mē | μή | particle) harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom did he swear that they would not (mē | μή | particle) enter his rest, except those who had refused to obey?
Hebrews 4:2 For we also had good news proclaimed to us just as they did; but the word they heard did not benefit those who were not (mē | μή | particle) united with those who listened in faith
Hebrews 4:7 God again ordains a certain day — “today” — saying through David, after so long a time, just as it has been said before, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not (mē | μή | particle) harden your hearts.”
Hebrews 4:11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest; otherwise one of you might fall by the same sort of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable (mē | μή | particle) to feel our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are — yet without sin.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore let us leave standing the elementary teaching about Christ and let us move on to maturity, not (mē | μή | particle) laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith in God,
Hebrews 6:12 so that you will not (mē | μή | particle) be lazy, but imitators of those who by faith and perseverance inherit the promises.
Hebrews 7:6 But this man who does not (mē | μή | particle) trace his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.
Hebrews 8:11 And they will not teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest.
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be gracious toward their iniquities and I will never again remember their sins.”
Hebrews 9:9 This is an illustration pointing to the present time, during which the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot (mē | μή | particle) perfect the worshiper so far as his conscience is concerned,
Hebrews 10:17 then he says, “Their sins and their lawless acts I will never again remember.”
Hebrews 10:25 not (mē | μή | particle) abandoning our own meetings, as is the habit of some, but rather encouraging one another, and all the more since you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:35 Therefore do not (mē | μή | particle) throw away your boldness, which has great reward.
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not (mē | μή | particle) brought into being from anything observable.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not (mē | μή | particle) see death, and he could not be found, because God had taken him. For before he was taken he had been approved as one who had been pleasing to God,
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he would receive as an inheritance. He set out even though he did not (mē | μή | particle) know where he was going.
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, without (mē | μή | particle) receiving the fulfillment of the promises, but they saw them from a distance and greeted them. They acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles in the land.
Hebrews 11:27 By faith he left Egypt, not (mē | μή | particle) fearing the anger of the king, for he endured as though seeing the one who is invisible.
Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroying angel would not (mē | μή | particle) touch their firstborn.