Strong G3761οὐδέ

nor

Transliteration
oude
Pronunciation
oo-deh'
Morphology
Greek Conjunction - Negative

Definition

From G3756 and G1161; not however that is neither 6
nor not even: - neither (indeed) never no (more nor not) nor (yet) (also even then) not (even so much as) + nothing so much as.

Detailed definition

οὐδέ, negative particle, related to μηδέ as οὐ to μή.


I. As conjc., and not, also not, neither, nor: Mat.6:15, Luk.16:31, Rom.4:15, al.; οὐ... οὐδέ, Mat.5:15 10:24, Mrk.4:22, Luk.6:43, 44, Jhn.6:24, Act.2:27, Rom.2:28, al. (see Bl., §77, 10).

II. As adv., not even: Mat.6:29, Mrk.6:31, Luk.7:9, 1Co.5:1; οὐδὲ εἷς, Act.4:32, Rom.3:10" (LXX).
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3761 appears in 125 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • neither66
  • nor27
  • not24
  • much4
  • no4
  • then2
  • yet2
  • also1
  • can1
  • even1
  • nothing1

First verses

  1. Matthew 5:15
    Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
  2. Matthew 6:15
    But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
  3. Matthew 6:20
    But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
  4. Matthew 6:26
    Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
  5. Matthew 6:28
    And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
  6. Matthew 6:29
    And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  7. Matthew 7:18
    A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
  8. Matthew 8:10
    When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
  9. Matthew 9:17
    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
  10. Matthew 10:24
    The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
  11. Matthew 11:27
    All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
  12. Matthew 12:4
    How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
  13. Matthew 12:19
    He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
  14. Matthew 13:13
    Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
  15. Matthew 16:9
    Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
  16. Matthew 16:10
    Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
  17. Matthew 21:27
    And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
  18. Matthew 22:46
    And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
  19. Matthew 23:13
    But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  20. Matthew 24:21
    For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
οὐδέ,
negative Particle, related to μηδέ as οὐ to μή, partly conjunction, partly adverb:
A CONJUNCTION, but not, mostly answering to μέν (sometimes written divisim), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.138, 24.418; without μέν, 5.21, etc.: sometimes the first οὐδέ)], but not, is followed by οὐδέ, nor, ἄλλοις μὲν πᾶσιν ἑήνδανεν, οὐδέ ποθ᾽ Ἥρῃ, οὐδὲ Ποσειδάων᾽, οὐδὲ γλαυκώπιδι κούρῃ [Refs (24.25.)]
A.II more frequently and not, nor: sometimes without a negative preceding, Κίρκη δ᾽ ὡς ἐνόησεν ἔμ᾽ ἥμενον, οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ σίτῳ χεῖρας ἰάλλοντα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.375; τραχὺς μόναρχος οὐδ᾽ ὑπεύθυνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 326, compare 102, 259, +others)]; δεινὸν γάρ, οὐδὲ ῥητόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 756, compare 996, “OT” 398, 868 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.97, etc.)]: after a negative compound, ὃν ἠτίμησ᾽ Ἀγαμέμνων, οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλυσε θύγατρα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.95; ἀνήμεροι γὰρ οὐδὲ πρόσπλατοι ξένοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 716; ἄστιπτος οὐδ᾽ οἰκουμένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 2; ἄθικτος οὐδ᾽ οἰκητός [prev. author] “OC” 39.)]
A.II.2 with a negative preceding, nor, βρώμης δ᾽ οὐχ ἅπτεαι οὐ. ποτῆτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.379; οὐκέτισοὶ.. μένος ἔμπεδον οὐ. τις ἀλκή 22.226; οὐκ ἔχων βάσιν οὐ. τιν᾽ ἐγχώρων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 692 (Lyric poetry), compare 681 (Lyric poetry), 905, 955, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.2, etc.: sometimes the preceding _negative_ is itself οὐδέ)], = and not, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.222)]; οὐδέ, = nor may be repeated any number of times, e.g. three times in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1378.)] —Sts. the _negative_ follows the whole word-group instead of preceding it, σιδήρῳ δὲ οὐδ᾽ ἀργύρῳ χρέωνται οὐδέν but iron or silver use they not at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.215; Θεσσαλοῦ μὲν οὐδ᾽ Ἱππάρχου οὐδεὶς παῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.55; ἁπλοῦν μὲν οὐ. δίκαιον οὐδὲν ἂν εἰπεῖν ἔχοι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.4: but οὐδὲ.. οὐδέ)] never means neither.. nor (like οὔτε.. οὔτε); where this combination occurs, the first οὐδέ is used without reference to the second, e.g. καὶ μὴν οὐδ᾽ ἡ ἐπιτείχισις οὐδὲ τὸ ναυτικὸν ἄξιον φοβηθῆναι and moreover we have no reason to fear their fortifications, nor yet their navy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142.)]
A.III οὐδέ may also follow οὔτε, by an anacoluthon, as in τε.., δέ.. (see. οὔτε [Refs (11.3))]; but οὔτε cannot follow οὐδέ.[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Cf. — μηδέ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 2.)]
B adverb, not even, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus mostly with _adverbs_, οὐδ᾽ ῃβαιόν)] not even a little, no not a bit, not at all, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.386; οὐ. τυτθόν 1.354; οὐ. μίνυνθα 20.27)]; so also ἐπεὶ οὔ οἱ ἔνι φρένες οὐδ᾽ ἠβαιαί he has no sense, no not even a little,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (14.141, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.288; τότε μὲν εὖ ζῶντες, νῦν δὲ οὐ. ζῶντες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 329a: frequently in _Attic dialect_, τούτῳ μὲν οὐ. διελέγετο)] he did not even exchange words with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 425; οὐδ᾽, εἰ γέγονεν, οἶδα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.70, etc.)]: in the same sense, οὐ. γ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97a, 97b, 106b; οὐ. γ᾽ αὖ [prev. author] “R.” 499a; οὐ. μήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.50, etc.)]; Epic dialect οὐ. μέν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.374, etc.: in _Attic dialect_ frequently with εἷς (whence οὐδείς), οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἷς θύσειεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 137: sometimes without elision, οὐδὲ εἷς [prev. work] 1182, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.45; οὐκ ἄλλ᾽ οὐ. ἕν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 138, compare “Ra.” 927; also οὐ. καθ᾽ ἕν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.87; οὐ. παρ᾽ ἑνός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.10, etc.)] —This οὐδέ frequently follows καί, and not even, καὶ οὐδ᾽ αὐτοὶ αὖ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.56, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.4, etc.)]; also ἀλλ᾽ οὐδέ, most frequently in phrase ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὧς.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.263, 9.351, etc.)]
B.II also not, not.. either, nor yet.., ὁ δίκαιος τοῦ δικαίου δοκεῖ τί σοι ἂν ἐθέλειν πλέον ἔχειν; Answ. οὐδαμῶς..; Qu. τί δ; τῆς δικαίας πράξεως; Answ. οὐ. τῆς δικαίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 349b, compare “Ap.” 19d, 21d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.4.)]
C Repetition of οὐδέ and combination with οὐ:
C.I in Relat. as well as antecedent clause, ὥσπερ οὐδ᾽ ηὔχετο, οὐδ᾽ ᾤετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.141a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.18.)]
C.II οὐ γὰρ οὐδέ, as ἀλλ᾽ οὐ γὰρ οὐ. νουθετεῖν ἔξεστί σε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 595, compare “Aj.” 1242, “OT” 287, etc.)]; οὐ. γὰρ οὐ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.22, 6.130, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.32, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.16, etc.)]; οὐ. μὲν οὐ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.703, etc.; οὐ μὰν οὐ. 23.441, etc.)]; compare οὐ with