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
| Luke 22:42 | saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not (mē | μή | particle) my will, but yours be done.” |
| Luke 22:46 | He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not (mē | μή | particle) enter a time of trial.” |
| Luke 22:67 | and said, “If you are the Messiah, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, |
| Luke 22:68 | and if I question you, you will not answer. |
| Luke 23:28 | Turning to them, Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not (mē | μή | particle) weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. |
| Luke 24:16 | but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. |
| Luke 24:23 | and not (mē | μή | particle) finding his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. |
| John 2:16 | To those who were selling doves he said, “Take those out of here! Do not (mē | μή | particle) make my Father’s house a marketplace!” |
| John 3:2 | This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one is able to perform the miraculous signs that you are doing unless God is with him.” |
| John 3:3 | Jesus answered him, saying, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” |
| John 3:4 | Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot (mē | μή | particle) enter into his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can (mē | μή | particle) he?” (mē | μή | particle) |
| John 3:5 | Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. |
| John 3:7 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ |
| John 3:13 | No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man. |
| John 3:16 | “For this is how God loved the world: he gave his one and only Son that everyone who believes in him should not (mē | μή | particle) perish but have eternal life. |
| John 3:18 | The one who believes in him is not condemned, but the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) believe is condemned already, because he has not (mē | μή | particle) believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. |
| John 3:20 | For everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. |
| John 3:27 | John responded, saying, “A man cannot receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. |
| John 4:12 | Surely you are not (mē | μή | particle) greater than our father Jacob, are (mē | μή | particle) you (mē | μή | particle), who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks?” |
| John 4:14 | but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up to eternal life.” |
| John 4:15 | The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not (mē | μή | particle) be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” |
| John 4:33 | Then the disciples began to say to one another, “No (mē | μή | particle) one has brought him something to eat, have (mē | μή | particle) they?” (mē | μή | particle) |
| John 4:48 | Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” |
| John 5:14 | Later on Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been healed! Do not sin any longer, so that nothing (mē | μή | particle) worse happens to you.” |
| John 5:19 | Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise. |
| John 5:23 | so that everyone should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not (mē | μή | particle) honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. |
| John 5:28 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in their graves will hear his voice |
| John 5:45 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, on whom you have set your hope. |
| John 6:12 | And when the people had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing (mē | μή | particle) will go to waste.” |
| John 6:20 | But he said to them, “It is I; do not (mē | μή | particle) be afraid.” |
| John 6:22 | On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that the disciples had left without him. |
| John 6:27 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for on him God the Father has set his seal.” |
| John 6:35 | Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again. |
| John 6:37 | All that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never turn away. |
| John 6:39 | And this is the will of the one who sent me: that of all he has given me I should lose none (mē | μή | particle) but raise them up on the last day. |
| John 6:43 | Jesus answered them, saying, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) keep grumbling among yourselves. |
| John 6:44 | No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. |
| John 6:46 | Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. |
| John 6:50 | But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not (mē | μή | particle) die. |
| 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 life in you. |
| John 6:64 | But there are some among you who do not believe.” For from the beginning Jesus knew those who would not (mē | μή | particle) believe, and who it was who would betray him. |
| John 6:65 | And he said, “For this reason I have said to you, ‘No one can come to me unless it is granted to him by the Father.’” |
| John 6:67 | Jesus therefore said to the twelve, “You do not (mē | μή | particle) want to leave me like the others, do (mē | μή | particle) you?” (mē | μή | particle) |
| John 7:15 | The Jews were astonished, and they asked, “How does this man know the sacred letters, having never (mē | μή | particle) studied?” |
| John 7:23 | If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not (mē | μή | particle) be broken, why are you angry with me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath? |
| John 7:24 | Do not (mē | μή | particle) judge according to appearance, but judge with proper judgment.” |
| John 7:31 | Yet many of the crowd believed in him, saying, “When the Christ comes, he will not (mē | μή | particle) perform more miraculous signs than this man has, will (mē | μή | particle) he?” (mē | μή | particle) |
| John 7:35 | Then the Jews said to one another, “Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? Surely he is not (mē | μή | particle) going to go to our people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is (mē | μή | particle) he (mē | μή | particle)? |
| John 7:41 | Others were saying, “This man is the Christ.” But others were saying, “Surely the Christ does not (mē | μή | particle) come from Galilee, does (mē | μή | particle) he (mē | μή | particle)? |
| John 7:47 | The Pharisees responded to them, “Surely you have not (mē | μή | particle) been deceived as well, have (mē | μή | particle) you (mē | μή | particle)? |
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.