μήτιγε
mḗtige · G3386 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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An emphatic rhetorical particle expressing intensification, typically translated "how much more" or "much less," used to strengthen an argument by moving from a lesser to a greater case
Examples1 Corinthians 6:3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?
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.
Near synonyms 1 word
- μενοῦνγε menoûnge · G3304 · but, on the contrary, on the other hand
- μενοῦνγε shares the intensifying corrective function with μήτιγε, both serving to introduce a stronger or contrasting statement, though μενοῦνγε typically corrects or strengthens a previous assertion while μήτιγε introduces an even stronger consequence or implication.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so G T WH; but μήτι γέ R L, μή τί γέ Tr) (from μή, τί, γέ), to say nothing of, not to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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