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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #3387 - μήτις

Transliteration

mḗtis

Phonetics

may'-tis, may tis

Root Word (Etymology)

from (G3361) and (G5100)

Parts of Speech

pronoun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

let no one
hath any one

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (3)

John 3

HCS (0)

BSB (0)

ESV (0)

ESV (4)

John 3

2 Corinthians 1

(0)

KJV (3)

any 2

man 1

HCS (0)

BSB (0)

ESV (0)

ESV (4)

Did 1

any 2

anyone 1

(0)

RAH

ANT

BEZ

BGB

BMT

BYZ

ELZ

NA26

SBL

SCV

STV

TIS

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

μῆτις, ἡ, gen. ιος Pi. N. 3.9; acc. pl. μήτιας h.Ven. 249; also gen. ιδος A. Supp. 61 (lyr.); acc. pl. ιδας Id. Ch. 626 (lyr.); dat. μήτιδι Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.141; μήτῑ for μήτιϊ, Hom. (v. infr.); pl. μητίεσσι Pi. O. 1.9; acc. μῆτιν Il. 2.407, S. Ant. 158 (lyr.): —

I wisdom, skill, craft, Διὶ μῆτιν ἀτάλαντος (cf. μητίετα) Il.l.c., al.; βροτείη μ. Emp. 2.9; τὰν Διὸς γὰρ οὐχ ὁρῶ μῆτιν, ὅπᾳ φύγοιμ' ἄν A. Pr. 906 (lyr.); μήτι.. καὶ κέρδεσιν Od. 13.299; μήτι.. μέγ' ἀμείνων ἠὲ βίηφι Il. 23.315; μῆτιν ἀλώπηξ a fox for craft, Pi. I. 4(3).47; of a poet's craft, Id. N. l.c.

II counsel, plan, undertaking, ὑφαίνειν μῆτιν Il. 7.324, cf. Od. 4.678, etc.: pl., σοφῶν μητίεσσι Pi. O. l.c.; γυναικοβούλους μήτιδας A. Ch. l.c. — Poet. word. (Cf. Skt. mimâti, pf. part. Pass. mitá - 'measure', Lat. metior, O E. mæþ 'measure'.)

Thayer's Expanded Definition

μήτις (so R G John 4:33), more correctly μή τίς;

1. prohibitive, let no one (cf. Buttmann, 31 (28)): (with 1 aorist subjunctive 1 Corinthians 16:11); with 2 aorist subjunctive, 2 Thessalonians 2:8.

2. interrogative (Lat:num quis?) hath anyone etc.: John 7:48; (2 Corinthians 12:17, cf. Buttmann, § 151, 7; Winers Grammar, 574 (534)); where one would gladly believe what he asks about doubtfully (see μήτι, under the end): John 4:33.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

μή -τις

Rec. for μή τις

(see μή H3361, I, III, and cf. Thayer, see μήτις ).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";spikenard,"; is found in such passages as PSI VI. 628.7 (iii/B.C.) νάρδου ξηρᾶς μν (αῖ) β ̄, P Oxy VIII. 1088.49 (early i/A.D.) νάρδου (ὀβολός), P Leid Wi. 17 (ii/iii A.D.) νάρδος῎ Ινδικος, and id.ix. 10 where νάρδος is included in a list of ἐπιθύματα : cf. Mark 14:3, John 12:3. See also the adj. in Menander Fragm , p. 78, No. 274 νάρδινον (μύρον). The word is Semitic, cf. Lewy Fremdwörter, p. 40, and is found in Theophr. HP ix. 7. 2 ff.

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