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 John 1:10 If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not (mē | μή | particle) receive him into your house or give him any (mē | μή | particle) greeting,
3 John 1:10 For this reason, should I come, I will bring up the things he is doing, disparaging us with malicious talk. And not (mē | μή | particle) satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He even prevents those who would like to and puts them out of the church.
3 John 1:11 Dear friend, do not (mē | μή | particle) imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
Jude 1:5 Now I want to remind you, though you once knew all this, that the Lord, having saved his people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not (mē | μή | particle) believe.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not (mē | μή | particle) stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:19 These are the ones causing division, worldly-minded, and devoid (mē | μή | particle) of (mē | μή | particle) the Spirit.
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) fear! I am the First and the Last,
Revelation 2:5 Therefore remember from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not (mē | μή | particle), I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Revelation 2:11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who conquers will not be harmed by the second death.
Revelation 2:16 Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you without delay and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name which no one can understand except the one who receives it.
Revelation 2:22 Beware, I will throw her onto a bed of suffering, and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent of her ways.
Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not (mē | μή | particle) wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Revelation 3:5 The one who conquers will, in this way, be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the Book of Life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels.
Revelation 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and he will never go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.
Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire so you can be rich; and white garments to clothe yourself so your shameful nakedness will not (mē | μή | particle) be exposed; and salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
Revelation 5:5 Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop (mē | μή | particle) weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has won the victory so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Revelation 6:6 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not (mē | μή | particle) harm the oil and the wine!”
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no (mē | μή | particle) wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or against any tree.
Revelation 7:3 saying, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 7:16 No longer will they go hungry, neither will they thirst again; the sun will not (mē | μή | particle) beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat;
Revelation 8:12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened; for a third of the day there was no (mē | μή | particle) light, and for a third of the night as well.
Revelation 9:4 They were told not (mē | μή | particle) to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Revelation 9:5 They were allowed not (mē | μή | particle) to kill them but to torture them for five months, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.
Revelation 9:6 And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.