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οὐχί

ouchí · G3780 · Greek · 69 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. not, not indeed

    A marker of a somewhat more emphatically negativized proposition

    Examples

    Luke 1:60 And yet his mother responded and said, “No indeed; but he shall be called John.”

    Luke 12:51 “Do you think that I came to provide peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division;

    Luke 13:3 “No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

  2. A marker of a somewhat more emphatic affirmative response

    Examples

    Matthew 5:46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors, do they not do the same?

    Matthew 5:47 “And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Even the Gentiles, do they not do the same?

    Matthew 6:25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 5 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
לֹא lôʼ · H3808 · not, no
Greek οὐχί is the emphatic or strengthened form of negation ('not indeed, surely not'), serving as the standard Greek rendering of Hebrew לֹא, the primary negative particle.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Not, not indeed69.4
οὐχί is an emphatic form of the plain negative particle, used to press a rhetorical question, as Jesus challenges His disciples about God's care: “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.” (Matthew 10:29)
Markers for an Affirmative Response to Questions69.12
This lexeme likewise introduces a rhetorical question that anticipates an affirmative answer: “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors, do they not do the same?” (Matthew 5:46).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon equivalent to οὐ, not, but stronger (cf. νυνί at the beginning); a. in simple negative…
equivalent to οὐ, not, but stronger (cf. νυνί at the beginning);
a. in simple negative sentences, by no means, not at all (A. V. not): Jn 13:10; Jn 14:22; 1 Cor 5:2; 1 Cor 6:1; followed by ἀλλά, 1 Cor 10:29; 2 Cor 10:13 (L T Tr WH οὐκ); in denials or contradictions (A. V. nay; not so), Lk 1:60; Lk 12:51; Lk 13:3, Lk 13:5; Lk 16:30; Rom 3:27.
b. in a question, Latinnonne? (asking what no one denies to be true): Mt 5:46; Mt 10:29; Mt 13:27; Mt 20:13; Lk 6:39; Lk 17:17 (L Tr WH οὐχ); ; Jn 11:9; Acts 2:7 Tr WH text; Rom 2:26 (L T Tr WH οὐχ); 1 Cor 1:20; Heb 1:14, etc.; (the Sept. for הֲלֹא, Gen 40:8; Judg 4:6); ἀλλ' οὐχί, will he not rather, Lk 17:8.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Negation18 occurrencesMarkers for an Affirmative Response to Questions34 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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