οὔτε
oúte · G3777 · Greek · 91 occurrences
Meanings
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neither … nor
A marker of coordinate negativized expressions (combination of the negative particle οὐ, and the postpositive conjunction τέ ‘and,’)
ExamplesMatthew 6:20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
Matthew 12:32 “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
Matthew 22:30 “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- οὐδέ oudé · G3761 · and not, nor, neither
- Both terms function as negative conjunctions or coordinators in a closely related field of negative coordination. Both express 'neither/nor' relations and emphatic negation, reflecting genuine functional convergence between two particles of negative coordination.
In the other Testament 1 word
- לֹא lôʼ · H3808 · not, no
- οὔτε (oúte, G3777) is the Greek negative conjunction ("neither...nor") that regularly translates לֹא (lôʼ, H3808), the standard Hebrew negative particle, in coordinated negative constructions where several clauses or elements are negated in parallel.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Neither … nor69.9
- οὔτε functions as a correlative negative particle joining two or more denied items, as Jesus describes the resurrected state: “but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.” (Luke 20:35)
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (οὐ and τέ), an adjunctive negative conjunction (from Homer down) (differing fr., μήτε as…
1. Examples in which οὔτε stands singly:
a. οὐ... οὔτε, Rev 12:8 Rec. (where G L T Tr WH οὐδέ); Rev 20:4 R G (where L T Tr WH οὐδέ); οὐδείς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι τό βιβλίον οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό, Rev 5:4; cf. Winers Grammar, 491 (457); Buttmann, 367 (315); οὐ... οὐδέ... οὔτε, 1 Thess 2:3 R G (where L T Tr WH more correctly οὐδέ) (Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, 368 (315)); οὐδέ... οὔτε (so that οὔτε answers only to the οὐ in οὐδέ), Gal 1:12 R G T WH text (Winers Grammar, 492 (458); Buttmann, 366 (314)).
b. οὔτε... καί, like Latinneque...et, neither... and: Jn 4:11; 3 Jn 1:10 (Euripides, Iph. T. 591; but the more common Greek usage was οὐ... τέ, cf. Klotz ad Devar. 2:2, p. 714; Passow, under the word, B. 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 4); Winers Grammar, § 55, 7; (Buttmann, § 149, 13 c.)).
c. By a solecism οὔτε is put for οὐδέ, not... even: 1 Cor 3:2 Rec. (where G L T Tr WH οὐδέ) (Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, 367 (315); § 149, 13 f.); Mk 5:3 R G (where L T Tr WH have restored οὐδέ (Winers Grammar, 490 (456); Buttmann, as above)); Lk 12:26 R G (where L T Tr WH οὐδέ (Winers Grammar, as above and 478 (445); Buttmann, 347 (298))); οὔτε μετενόησαν, Rev 9:20 R L Tr (where G WH text οὐ, T οὐδέ not... even; WH marginal reading οὔτε or οὐδέ (cf. Buttmann, 367 (315))); after the question μή δύναται... σῦκα; follows οὔτε ἁλυκόν γλυκύ ποιῆσαι ὕδωρ, Jas 3:12 G L T Tr WH (as though οὔτε δύναται... σῦκα had previously been in the writer's mind (cf. Winers Grammar, 493 (459); Buttmann, as above)).
2. used twice or more, neither... nor (Latinnec...nec;neque...neque): Mt 6:20; Mt 22:30; Mk 12:25; (Mk 14:68 L text T Tr WH); Lk 14:35 (34); Jn 4:21; Jn 5:37; Jn 8:19; Jn 9:3; Acts 15:10; Acts 19:37; Acts 25:8; Acts 28:21; Rom 8:38f (where οὔτε occurs ten times); 1 Cor 3:7; 1 Cor 6:9f; (οὔτε eight times (yet T WH Tr marginal reading the eighth time οὐ)); ; Gal 5:6; Gal 6:15; 1 Thess 2:6; Rev 3:15; Rev 9:20; Rev 21:4; οὔτε... οὔτε... οὐδέ (German auchnicht, also not), L Tr WH in Lk 20:35f, and L T Tr marginal reading WH in Acts 24:12f; cf. Winers Grammar, 491 (457f); Buttmann, 368 (315) note.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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