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μήτε

mḗte · G3383 · Greek · 34 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. neither … nor

    A marker of coordinate negativized expressions (combination of the negative particle μή ‘not,’, and the postpositive conjunction τέ ‘and,’)

    Examples

    Matthew 5:34 “But I say to you, take no oath at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

    Matthew 5:35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.

    Matthew 5:36 “Nor shall you take an oath by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Neither … nor69.9
This sense denotes a correlative negative construction joining two or more negated items. Matthew 5:34 instructs, “take no oath at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God.”
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τέ té · G5037 · and, and then · 209×τότε tóte · G5119 · then · 159×ὅταν hótan · G3752 · whenever, when · 123×ὅτε hóte · G3753 · when, as long as, while · 101×οὔτε oúte · G3777 · neither … nor · 91×εἴτε eíte · G1535 · if … if, whether … or · 65×πάντοτε pántote · G3842 · always, at all times, on every occasion · 41×μήτεmḗte · G3383
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (μή and the enclitic τέ) (from Homer down), a copulative conjunction of negation,…
(μή and the enclitic τέ) (from Homer down), a copulative conjunction of negation, neither, nor (differing from οὔτε as μή does from οὐ. It differs from μηδέ; in that μηδέ separates different things, but μήτε those which are of the same kind or which are parts of one whole; cf. Winers Grammar, § 55, 6; (Buttmann, § 149, 13 b.)): μήτε... μήτε, neither... nor, Lk 7:33 (T μή... μηδέ); (five times); Acts 23:12, Acts 23:21; Acts 27:20; Heb 7:3; (but in Eph 4:27 for μή... μήτε we must with L T Tr WH substitute μή... μηδέ). μή... μήτε... μήτε, Mt 5:34-36 (four times); 1 Tim 1:7; Jas 5:12; Rev 7:3; ἵνα μή... μήτε... μήτε, Rev 7:1; μηδέ... μήτε... μήτε, 2 Thess 2:2 L T Tr WH; μή εἶναι ἀνάστασιν, μηδέ ἄγγελον (for that is something other than ἀνάστασις), μήτε πνεῦμα (because angels belong to the genus πνεύματα), Acts 23:8 R G; cf. Winers Grammar, 493 (409); (Buttmann, 367f (314f)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Negation Combined with Clitics34 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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