For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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μή
Vocabulary form:
mhv
Definition:
not, lest
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
1,042
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 ouj but is used in different situations that we will discuss later.
Biblical Concordance
| Revelation 9:20 | The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands so as to give up (mē | μή | particle) worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. |
| Revelation 10:4 | And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was preparing to write but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not (mē | μή | particle) write it down.” |
| Revelation 11:2 | but exclude the court that is outside the temple; do not (mē | μή | particle) measure it because it has been given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. |
| Revelation 11:6 | These two witnesses have the power to shut the sky so that no (mē | μή | particle) rain will fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they wish. |
| Revelation 13:15 | The second beast was allowed to animate the image of the first beast so that the image of the beast could speak, and could cause all those who would not (mē | μή | particle) worship the image of the beast to be killed. |
| Revelation 13:17 | And no (mē | μή | particle) one was permitted to buy or to sell unless he bore the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of his name. |
| Revelation 14:3 | and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. |
| Revelation 15:4 | Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy, for all nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” |
| Revelation 16:15 | (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes at hand, so that he will not (mē | μή | particle) be caught naked and his shameful condition be seen.”) |
| Revelation 18:4 | Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues; |
| Revelation 18:7 | As she exalted herself and lived in luxury, give her an equal measure of torment and mourning; because in her heart she said, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I will never see.’ |
| Revelation 18:14 | “The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all your delicacies and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again!” |
| Revelation 18:21 | Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a huge millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying, “With this kind of violence Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and never again will it be found! |
| Revelation 18:22 | And the sound of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters, will never again be heard; craftsman of any trade will never again be found in you, and the sound of the mill will never again be heard in you; |
| Revelation 18:23 | the light of a lamp will never again shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will never again be heard in you; for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your magic spells. |
| Revelation 19:10 | Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” |
| Revelation 19:12 | His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows except himself. |
| Revelation 20:3 | Then he threw him into the abyss, locked and sealed it over him, so he could not (mē | μή | particle) deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were finished. After that he must be set loose for a short time. |
| Revelation 21:25 | On no day will its gates ever be closed, since there will be no night there. |
| Revelation 21:27 | But nothing that is unclean — no one who practices idolatry or falsehood — will ever enter it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. |
| Revelation 22:9 | But he said to me, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!” |
| Revelation 22:10 | Then he said to me, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic for greek word may (mh)
You certainly |may| |not| do that, |lest| you get hurt!
Who did this? Not μή.
Who did this? Not μή.