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

2 Peter 2:21 For it would have been better for them never (mē | μή | particle) to have come to know the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.
2 Peter 3:8 But do not (mē | μή | particle) let this one thing escape your notice, dear friends, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a single day.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not late in fulfilling his promise, as some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not (mē | μή | particle) willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:17 You therefore, dear friends, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard that you are not (mē | μή | particle) led astray by the error of these lawless people and fall from your stable position.
1 John 2:1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not (mē | μή | particle) sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one.
1 John 2:4 The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not (mē | μή | particle) keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:15 Do not (mē | μή | particle) love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:28 And now, dear children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not (mē | μή | particle) be put to shame in his presence when he comes.
1 John 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother.
1 John 3:13 So do not (mē | μή | particle) be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not (mē | μή | particle) love remains in the realm of death.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love, not (mē | μή | particle) in word or speech but in action and truth.
1 John 3:21 Dear friends, if our conscience does not (mē | μή | particle) condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not (mē | μή | particle) believe every spirit, but test the spirits to find out whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:3 but every spirit that does not (mē | μή | particle) confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:8 The person who does not (mē | μή | particle) love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 5:5 Who is it that conquers the world, but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
1 John 5:12 The one who has the Son has life; the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:16 If someone sees his brother committing a sin that does not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death, he should ask and God will give him life — to those whose sins do not (mē | μή | particle) lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that he should pray about that.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not (mē | μή | particle) confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist!
2 John 1:8 Be on your guard, so that we may not (mē | μή | particle) lose the things we worked for but may receive a full reward.
2 John 1:9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not (mē | μή | particle) continue in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.