Definition

the absolute negative (compare G3361 (μή)) adverb; no or not

Etymology

a primary word;

Where the KJV renders it

• + long
• nay
• neither
• never
• no (X man)
• none
• (can-)not
• + nothing
• + special
• un(-worthy)
• when
• + without
• + yet but

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.