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οὐδαμῶς

oudamōs · G3760 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. no indeed, by no means, most certainly not

    A marker of strongly emphatic negation

    Examples

    Matthew 2:6 ‘AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU WILL COME FORTH A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.’”

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
No indeed, by no means, most certainly not69.6
οὐδαμῶς is an emphatic denial, used by Matthew to negate the notion that Bethlehem is least among Judah's leaders: “‘AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH.’” (Matthew 2:6)
Word family 7 words

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

οὐδέ oudé · G3761 · and not, nor, neither · 140×οὐδείς oudeís · G3762 · no one, none, nothing · 235×οὐδέποτε oudépote · G3763 · never, not ever, at no time · 16×ἐξουθενέω exouthenéō · G1848 · to despise · 11×οὐδέπω oudépō · G3764 · not yet, still not · 4×ἐξουδενόω exoudenóō · G1847 · to ill-treat, to ill-treat and look down upon · 1×οὐδαμῶςoudamōs · G3760
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from οὐδαμός, not even one; and this from οὐδέ and ἆμος (allied perhaps with ἅμα; cf.…
(from οὐδαμός, not even one; and this from οὐδέ and ἆμος (allied perhaps with ἅμα; cf. Vanicek, p. 972; Curtius, § 600)), adverb, from Herodotus (and Aeschylus) down, by no means, in no wise: Mt 2:6.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Negation1 occurrence

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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