Definition

not even one (man, woman, thing)

Etymology

from G3361 (μή) and G1520 (εἷς);

Where the KJV renders it

• any (man
• thing)
• no (man)
• none
• not (at all
• any man
• a whit)
• nothing
• + without delay

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.