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μήτι

mḗti · G3385 · Greek · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. surely not, unless

    A marker of a somewhat more emphatic negative response

    Examples

    Matthew 7:16 “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?

    Matthew 12:23 And all the crowds were amazed and were saying, “This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?”

    Matthew 26:22 Being deeply grieved, they began saying to Him, each one: “Surely it is not I, Lord?”

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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Surely not, unless69.16
This sense introduces a question expecting a negative answer. Matthew 7:16 asks, “Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they?”
Word family 2 words

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

μήτιmḗti · G3385μήτιγε mḗtige · G3386 · not at all then, i.e. not to say · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so G T WH R (commonly), but μή τί L (except 1 Cor 6:3) Tr (except Mt 26:22, Mt 26:25; Mk…
(so G T WH R (commonly), but μή τί L (except 1 Cor 6:3) Tr (except Mt 26:22, Mt 26:25; Mk 4:21)) (μή and τί), whether at all, whether perchance, an interrogative expecting a negative answer; in a direct question (German doch nicht etwa? (in English generally untranslated; cf. Winers Grammar, § 57, 3 b.; Buttmann, 248 (213))): Mt 7:16; Mt 26:22, Mt 26:25; Mk 4:21; Mk 14:19; Lk 6:39; Jn 7:31 (R G); Jn 8:22; Jn 18:35; (here all texts μή τί (properly)); Acts 10:47; 2 Cor 12:18; Jas 3:11; μήτι ἄρα, 2 Cor 1:17; used by one asking doubtfully yet inclining to believe what he asks about (see μήποτε, 3 a.): Mt 12:23; Jn 4:29. εἰ μήτι, see εἰ, III. 10. μήτιγε (or μήτι γέ) see in its place.

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

Sources

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