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

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not (ou | οὐ | particle) late in fulfilling his promise, as some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not willing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 John 1:5 Now this is the message that we have heard from him and are proclaiming to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) darkness in him.
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him but continue to walk in darkness, we lie and are not (ou | οὐ | particle) putting the truth into practice.
1 John 1:8 If we say that we are without (ouk | οὐκ | particle) sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) in us.
1 John 1:10 If we say that we have not (ouch | οὐχ | particle) sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) in us.
1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not (ou | οὐ | particle) for ours only, but also for those of the entire world.
1 John 2:4 The one who says, “I know God,” yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar and the truth is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) in him.
1 John 2:7 Dear friends, it is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) a new commandment that I write to you, but an old commandment — one that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have already heard.
1 John 2:10 The one who loves his brother is living in the light and in him there is no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) cause for stumbling.
1 John 2:11 But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness; he walks in the darkness and does not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world — the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride of possession — is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out from us that it might become plain that none (ouk | οὐκ | particle) of them are of us.
1 John 2:21 I write to you, not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) because you do not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) know the truth, but because you do know it and because no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) lie comes from the truth.
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 2:27 But the anointing you received from him abides in you, and you have no (ou | οὐ | particle) need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) a lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God — and so we are! The reason the world does not (ou | οὐ | particle) know us is that it did not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) know him.
1 John 3:5 And you know that he appeared to take away our sins, and that there is no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) sin in him.
1 John 3:6 No (ouch | οὐχ | particle) one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no (ouch | οὐχ | particle) one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
1 John 3:9 No (ou | οὐ | particle) one born of God makes a practice of sinning, because God’s seed abides in him. He cannot (ou | οὐ | particle) keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not practice righteousness is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.
1 John 3:12 We are not (ou | οὐ | particle) to be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and those of his brother were righteous.
1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no (ouk | οὐκ | particle) murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 4:3 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) from God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard was coming, and now is already in the world.
1 John 4:6 We are from God. The person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) from God does not (ouk | οὐκ | particle) listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.