Vocabulary Form
οὐ, οὐκ, οὐχ
Definition

not

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
1623
GK
4024
Mnemonics

Oooo! That's not good!

Mnemonic Singing

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed.

Song
Verse

“Unless your righteousness exceeds beyond that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will οὐ enter the kingdom of heaven.”(Matt 5:20)

Notes

οὐκ and οὐχ are different forms of οὐ. οὐ is used when the following word begins with a consonant. οὐκ is used when the next word begins with a vowel and smooth breathing, while οὐχ is used when the next word begins with a vowel and rough breathing. All forms mean “not.”

Biblical Concordance

John 6:36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not (ou | οὐ | particle) believe.
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never (ou | οὐ | particle) turn away.
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) to do my own will but to do the will of him who sent me.
John 6:42 And they were saying, “Is this not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
John 6:46 Not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
John 6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will have no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) life in you.
John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not (ou | οὐ | particle) like that which your fathers ate and died. The one who feeds on this bread will live forever.”
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is useless (ouk | οὐκ | particle). The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
John 6:64 But there are some among you who do not (ou | οὐ | particle) believe.” For from the beginning Jesus knew those who would not believe, and who it was who would betray him.
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”
John 7:1 After this Jesus traveled about in Galilee; he chose not (ou | οὐ | particle) to remain in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
John 7:7 The world cannot (ou | οὐ | particle) hate you, but it hates me because I am bearing witness against it that its works are evil.
John 7:8 You go up to the festival yourselves; I am not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) going up to this festival, for my time has not yet fully come.”
John 7:10 However, when his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus himself also went up, not (ou | οὐ | particle) openly, but as it were, in private.
John 7:12 And there was a lot of secret discussion about him among the crowds; some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others were saying, “No (ou | οὔ | particle), to the contrary, he is leading people astray.”
John 7:16 Jesus answered, saying, “My teaching is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) mine, but it comes from the one who sent me.
John 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own honor; but the one who seeks the honor of the one who sent him is truthful, and in him there is nothing (ouk | οὐκ | particle) false.
John 7:19 “Has not (ou | οὐ | particle) Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
John 7:22 Moses gave you circumcision — not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs — and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
John 7:25 Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Is not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) this the man whom they are trying to kill?
John 7:28 Then Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, cried out, saying, know me, and you know where I am from? I have not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and him you do not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) know;
John 7:34 You will look for me, but you will not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) find me; and where I am, you cannot (ou | οὐ | particle) go.”
John 7:35 Then the Jews said to one another, “Where is this man about to go that we will not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) find him? Surely he is not going to go to our people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?
John 7:36 What can it mean, this saying of his: ‘You will look for me but you will not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) find me,’ and ‘Where I am you cannot (ou | οὐ | particle) go’?”
John 7:42 Has not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) the scripture said that the Christ will be a descendant of David and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was born?”