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Lexicon :: Strong's G3367 - mēdeis

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μηδείς
Transliteration
mēdeis (Key)
Pronunciation
may-dice'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

μηδείς mēdeís, may-dice'; from G3361 and G1520; not even one (man, woman, thing):—any (man, thing), no (man), none, not (at all, any man, a whit), nothing, + without delay.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x

The KJV translates Strong's G3367 in the following manner: no man (32x), nothing (27x), no (16x), none (6x), not (1x), anything (2x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 91x
The KJV translates Strong's G3367 in the following manner: no man (32x), nothing (27x), no (16x), none (6x), not (1x), anything (2x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. nobody, no one, nothing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μηδείς mēdeís, may-dice'; from G3361 and G1520; not even one (man, woman, thing):—any (man, thing), no (man), none, not (at all, any man, a whit), nothing, + without delay.
STRONGS G3367:
μηδείς, μηδεμία, μηδέν (and μηθέν, Acts 27:33 L T Tr WH — a form not infrequent from Aristotle onward (found as early as Buttmann, C. 378, cf. Meisterhans, Gr. d. Attic Inschr., p. 73); cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 181f; Winers Grammar, § 5, 1 d. 11; (Buttmann, 28 (25)); Kühner, § 187, 1 vol. 1:487f), (from μηδέ and εἷς) (fr. Homer down); it is used either in connection with a noun, no, none, or absolutely, no one, not one, no man, neuter nothing, and in the same constructions as μή; accordingly
a. with an imperative: μηδείς being the person to whom something is forbidden, 1 Corinthians 3:18, 21; 1 Corinthians 10:24; Galatians 6:17; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 2:18; 1 Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:15; James 1:13; 1 John 3:7; neuter μηδέν, namely, ἔστω (A. V. have thou nothing to do with etc.), Matthew 27:19; μηδείς in the dative or the accusative depending on the imperative, Romans 13:8; 1 Timothy 5:22; μηδέν (accusative), Luke 3:13; Luke 9:3; μηδέν φοβοῦ, Revelation 2:10 (here L Tr WH text μή).
b. μηδείς with the optative: once in the N. T., Mark 11:14 (where Rec. οὐδείς) (cf. Winers Grammar, 476 (443)).
c. with the 2 person of the aorist subjunctive, the μηδείς depending on the verb; as, μηδενί εἴπῃς, Matthew 8:4; Matthew 17:9; accusative, Luke 3:14; Luke 10:4; μηδέν (accusative), Acts 16:28; κατά μηδένα τρόπον, 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
d. with the particles ἵνα and ὅπως (see μή, I. 3): with ἵνα, Matthew 16:20; Mark 5:43; Mark 6:8; Mark 7:36 9:9: Titus 3:13; Revelation 3:11; with ὅπως, Acts 8:24.
e. with an infinitive;
α. with one that depends on another verb: — as on παραγγέλλω, Luke 8:56; Luke 9:21; Acts 23:22; δεινυμι, Acts 10:28; διατάσσομαι, Acts 24:23; ἀναθεματίζω ἐμαυτόν, Acts 23:14; κρίνω (accusative with an infinitive), Acts 21:25 Rec.; εὔχομαι, 2 Corinthians 13:7; βούλομαι (accusative with an infinitive), 1 Timothy 5:14; ὑπομιμνῄσκω τινα, Titus 3:2, etc.; παρακαλῶ τινα followed by τό μή with the accusative and infinitive, 1 Thessalonians 3:3 L (stereotype edition) T Tr WH.
β. with an infinitive depending on διά τό: Acts 28:18; Hebrews 10:2.
f. with a participle (see μή, I. 5); in the dative, Acts 11:19; Romans 12:17; accusative μηδένα, John 8:10; Acts 9:7; μηδέν, Acts 4:21; Acts 27:33; 1 Corinthians 10:25, 27; 2 Corinthians 6:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:11; 1 Timothy 6:4; Titus 2:8; James 1:6; 3 John 1:7; μηδεμίαν προσκοπήν, 2 Corinthians 6:3; μηδεμίαν πτόησιν, 1 Peter 3:6; μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν, Acts 28:18; ἀναβολήν μηδεμίαν, Acts 25:17.
g. noteworthy are — μηδείς with a genitive, Acts 4:17; Acts 24:23; μηδέν namely, τούτων, Revelation 2:10 (R G T WH marginal reading); ἐς μηδενί, in nothing, 1 Corinthians 1:7 (but χαρίσματι is expressed here); 2 Cor. (2 Corinthians 6:3 (see h. below)); 2 Corinthians 7:9; Philippians 1:28; James 1:4. μηδέν εἶναι, to be nothing i. e. of no account opposed to εἶναι τί, Galatians 6:3 (Sophocles Aj. 754; other examples from Greek authors see in Passow, ii., p. 231{b}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word II.: cf. Buttmann, § 139, 5)); μηδέν (accusative), nothing i. e. not at all, in no respect: Acts 10:20; Acts 11:12, (Lucian, dial. deor. 2, 4; Tim. 43); as accusative of the object after verbs of harm, loss, damage, advantage, care (cf. Winers Grammar, 227 (313); Buttmann, § 131, 10): as, βλάπτειν, Luke 4:35 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 483 (450)); ὠφελεῖσθαι, Mark 5:26; ὑστέρειν, 2 Corinthians 11:5; μέριμναν, Philippians 4:6.
h. examples of a double negation, by which the denial is strengthened, where in Latin quisquam follows a negation (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 55, 9 b.): μηκέτι μηδείς, Mark 11:14; Acts 4:17; μηδενί μηδέν, Mark 1:44 (L omits; Tr brackets μηδέν); Romans 13:8; μηδεμίαν ἐν μηδενί, 2 Corinthians 6:3; μή... ἐν μηδενί, Philippians 1:28; μή... μηδέν, 2 Corinthians 13:7; μή... μηδεμίαν, 1 Peter 3:6; μή τίς... κατά μηδένα τρόπον, 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
8:4; 16:20; 17:9; 27:19
Mark
1:44; 5:26; 5:43; 6:8; 7:36; 9:9; 11:14; 11:14
Luke
3:13; 3:14; 4:35; 8:56; 9:3; 9:21; 10:4
John
8:10
Acts
4:17; 4:17; 4:21; 8:24; 9:7; 10:20; 10:28; 11:12; 11:19; 16:28; 21:25; 23:14; 23:22; 24:23; 24:23; 25:17; 27:33; 27:33; 28:18; 28:18
Romans
12:17; 13:8; 13:8
1 Corinthians
1:7; 3:18; 3:21; 10:24; 10:25; 10:27
2 Corinthians
6:3; 6:3; 6:3; 6:10; 7:9; 11:5; 13:7; 13:7
Galatians
6:3; 6:17
Ephesians
5:6
Philippians
1:28; 1:28; 4:6
Colossians
2:18
1 Thessalonians
3:3
2 Thessalonians
2:3; 2:3; 3:11
1 Timothy
4:12; 5:14; 5:22; 6:4
Titus
2:8; 2:15; 3:2; 3:13
Hebrews
10:2
James
1:4; 1:6; 1:13
1 Peter
3:6; 3:6
1 John
3:7
3 John
1:7
Revelation
2:10; 2:10; 3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3367 matches the Greek μηδείς (mēdeis),
which occurs 32 times in 31 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:19 - And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:10 - “If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:3 - No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:21 - And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - For their crime will they escape?
In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 - I would soon subdue their enemies
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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:12 - delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:17 - Let them be for yourself alone,
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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:7 - One pretends to be rich,[fn] yet has nothing;
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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for disaster will arise suddenly from them,
and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1 - The wicked flee when no one pursues,
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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:21 - But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:15 - Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:4 - Yet let no one contend,
and let none accuse,
for with you is my contention, O priest.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:7 - And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - Then the remnant of Jacob shall be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the LORD,
like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
nor wait for the children of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - “I have cut off nations;
their battlements are in ruins;
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so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
without a man, without an inhabitant.
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