Word Summary
mēdamōs: by no means
Original Word: μηδαμῶςTransliteration: mēdamōs
Phonetic Spelling: (may-dam-oce')
Part of Speech: Adverb, Negative
Short Definition: by no means
Meaning: by no means
Strong's Concordance
not so.
Adverb from a compound of me and amos (somebody); by no means -- not so.
see GREEK me
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3365: μηδαμῶςμηδαμῶς (adverb from
μηδαμός, and this from
μηδέ, and
ἆμος someone (perhaps allied with
ἅμα, which see)) (from
Aeschylus,
Herodotus down),
by no means, not at all: namely,
τοῦτο γένοιτο, in replies after an imperative (
A. V. Not so),
Acts 10:14;
Acts 11:8. (the
Sept. for
חָלִילָה.)