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
| Acts 19:31 | And also some of the Asiarchs, being friendly to him, sent to him and urged him not (mē | μή | particle) to commit himself to the theater. |
| Acts 20:10 | But Paul went down and threw himself on him, and putting his arms around him, said, “Do not (mē | μή | particle) be alarmed, for his life is in him.” |
| Acts 20:16 | For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not (mē | μή | particle) have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost. |
| Acts 20:20 | how I did not (mē | μή | particle) hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly from house to house, |
| Acts 20:22 | And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not (mē | μή | particle) knowing what will happen to me there, |
| Acts 20:27 | for I did not shrink from (mē | μή | particle) announcing to you the whole purpose of God. |
| Acts 20:29 | I know that there will come to you after my departure savage wolves, not (mē | μή | particle) sparing the flock. |
| Acts 21:4 | After locating the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not (mē | μή | particle) to set foot in Jerusalem. |
| Acts 21:12 | When we heard this, both we and the local people urged him not (mē | μή | particle) to go up to Jerusalem. |
| Acts 21:14 | And since he would not (mē | μή | particle) be persuaded, we fell silent, saying, “Let the will of the Lord be done.” |
| Acts 21:21 | But they were told about you that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not (mē | μή | particle) to circumcise their children and not to walk according to our customs. |
| Acts 21:34 | Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another, and since he was unable (mē | μή | particle) to find out the truth because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks. |
| Acts 23:8 | (For the Sadducees say that there is no (mē | μή | particle) resurrection, nor angel nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess them all.) |
| Acts 23:10 | And when the argument became violent, the commanding officer, afraid that Paul would be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks. |
| Acts 23:21 | But you should not (mē | μή | particle) be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him and have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting your consent.” |
| Acts 24:4 | But, that I may not (mē | μή | particle) detain you any longer, I beg you to hear us briefly in your kindness. |
| Acts 25:24 | And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought not (mē | μή | particle) to live any longer. |
| Acts 25:27 | For it seems unreasonable to me, in sending a prisoner, not (mē | μή | particle) to report the charges against him.” |
| Acts 26:32 | And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not (mē | μή | particle) appealed to Caesar.” |
| Acts 27:7 | We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not (mē | μή | particle) allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. |
| Acts 27:15 | And when the ship was caught by it and could not (mē | μή | particle) head into the wind, we gave way and allowed ourselves to be driven along. |
| Acts 27:17 | After hoisting it up, they passed cables under the ship to hold it together. Then, fearing that (mē | μή | conj) they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor, and thus they let the ship be driven along. |
| Acts 27:21 | Since they had long been without food, Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice and not (mē | μή | particle) set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. |
| Acts 27:24 | saying, ‘Do not (mē | μή | particle) be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you as a gift all those who sail with you.’ |
| Acts 27:29 | Fearing that (mē | μή | conj) we might run aground on the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. |
| Acts 27:31 | Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “If these men do not (mē | μή | particle) remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.” |
| Acts 27:42 | It was the plan of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, so none (mē | μή | conj) could escape by swimming away. |
| Acts 28:26 | “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive”; |
| Romans 1:28 | And as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do things that ought not (mē | μή | particle) to be done. |
| Romans 2:14 | whenever the Gentiles, who do not (mē | μή | particle) have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these, although they do not (mē | μή | particle) have the law, are a law to themselves. |
| Romans 2:21 | you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against (mē | μή | particle) stealing, do you steal? |
| Romans 2:22 | You who tell others not (mē | μή | particle) to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
| Romans 3:3 | But what if some were unfaithful, will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? |
| Romans 3:4 | By no means! (mē | μή | particle) Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written, “so that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.” |
| Romans 3:5 | But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict wrath on us? (I use a human argument!) |
| Romans 3:6 | By no means! (mē | μή | particle) For otherwise how could God judge the world? |
| Romans 3:8 | And why not (mē | μή | particle) say (as some slanderously claim that we are saying), “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? Their condemnation is well deserved! |
| Romans 3:31 | Do we therefore nullify the law through faith? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) On the contrary, we uphold the law. |
| Romans 4:5 | But to the one who does not (mē | μή | particle) work, but entrusts himself to the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. |
| Romans 4:8 | Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.” |
| Romans 4:17 | As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations.” He is our father, in the presence of God in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being the things that do not (mē | μή | particle) exist. |
| Romans 4:19 | Not (mē | μή | particle) being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. |
| Romans 5:13 | For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged when there is no (mē | μή | particle) law. |
| Romans 5:14 | Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sinning was not (mē | μή | particle) like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the coming one. |
| Romans 6:2 | By no means! (mē | μή | particle) How can we who died to sin go on living in it? |
| Romans 6:12 | Therefore do not (mē | μή | particle) let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. |
| Romans 6:15 | What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) |
| Romans 7:3 | Accordingly, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is not (mē | μή | particle) an adulteress if she marries another man. |
| Romans 7:7 | What then shall we say? Is the law sin? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law; that is, I would not have known what it means to covet had not the law said, “You shall not covet.” |
| Romans 7:13 | Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! (mē | μή | particle) But sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, produced death in me through that which is good so that sin, through the commandment, might be sinful beyond measure |
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.