Word Summary
mēte: neither, nor
Original Word: μήτεTransliteration: mēte
Phonetic Spelling: (may'-teh)
Part of Speech: Conjunction,Negative
Short Definition: neither, nor
Meaning: neither, nor
Strong's Concordance
neither, nor
From me and te; not too, i.e. (in continued negation) neither or nor; also, not even -- neither, (n-)or, so as much.
see GREEK me
see GREEK te
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3383: μήτεμήτε (
μή and the enclitic
τέ) (from
Homer down), a copulative conjunction of negation,
neither, nor (differing from
οὔτε as
μή does from
οὐ. It differs from
μηδέ; in that
μηδέ separates different things, but
μήτε those which are of the same kind or which are parts of one whole; cf.
Winers Grammar, § 55, 6; (
Buttmann, § 149, 13 b.)):
μήτε ...
μήτε,
neither ... nor, Luke 7:33 (
T μή ...
μηδέ);
(five times); Acts 23:12, 21; Acts 27:20; Hebrews 7:3; (but in Ephesians 4:27 for μή ... μήτε we must with L T Tr WH substitute μή ... μηδέ). μή ... μήτε ... μήτε, Matthew 5:34-36 (four times); 1 Timothy 1:7; James 5:12; Revelation 7:3; ἵνα μή ... μήτε ... μήτε, Revelation 7:1; μηδέ ... μήτε ... μήτε, 2 Thessalonians 2:2 L T Tr WH; μή εἶναι ἀνάστασιν, μηδέ ἄγγελον (for that is something other than ἀνάστασις), μήτε πνεῦμα (because angels belong to the genus πνεύματα), Acts 23:8 R G; cf. Winers Grammar, 493 (409); (Buttmann, 367f (314f)).