οὐ

ou

Greek G3756 Particle 1,627 occurrences in 1,403 verses
οὐ no

οὐ, before a vowel with smooth breathing οὐκ, before one with rough breathing οὐχ (but improperly οὐχ ἰδού, Act.2:7, WH, mg.; cf. WH, Intr., §409; M, Pr., 44, 244),

[in LXX for אֵין ,אַיִן ,לֹא ;]

neg. particle,

not, no, used generally with indic, and for a denial of fact (cf . μή);

1. absol. (accented), οὔ, no: Mat.13:29 Jhn.1:21 21:5; οὒ οὕ, Mat.5:37 Jas.5:12.

2. Most frequently negativing a verb or other word, Mat.1:25 10:26, 38, Mrk.3:25 9:37, Jhn.8:29, Act.7:5, Rom.1:16, Php.3:3, al.; in litotes, οὐκ ὀλίγοι (i.e. very many), Act.17:4, al.; οὐκ ἄσημος, Act.21:39; πᾶς . . . οὐ, with verb, (like Heb. כֹּל . . . לֹא), no, none, Mat.24:22, Mrk.13:20, Luk.1:37, Eph.5:5, al.; in disjunctive statements, οὐκ . . . ἀλλά, Luk.8:52 Jhn.1:33 Rom.8:2o, al.; with 2 of person(s) fut. (like Heb. לֹא, with impf.), as emphatic prohibition, Mat.4:7, Luk.4:12, Rom.7:7, al.

3. With another negative,

(a) strengthening the negation: Mrk.5:37, Jhn.8:15 12:19, Act.8:39, al.;

(b) making an affirmative: Act.4:20, 1Co.12:15.

4. With other particles: οὐ μή (see: μή); οὐ μηκέτι, Mat.21:19; with μή interrog., Rom.10:18, 1Co.9:4, 5 11:22.

5. Interrogative, expecting an affirmative answer (Lat. nonne): Mat.6:26, Mrk.4:21, Luk.11:40, Jhn.4:35, Rom.9:21, al.

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Concordance 1,403 verses

  1. Acts 5:28 Οὐ

    “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”

  2. Acts 5:39 οὐ

    But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

  3. Acts 5:42 οὐκ

    Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

  4. Acts 6:2 Οὐκ

    So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.

  5. Acts 6:10 οὐκ

    but they could not stand up to his wisdom or the Spirit by whom he spoke.

  6. Acts 6:13 οὐ

    where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

  7. Acts 7:5 οὐκοὐκ

    He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.

  8. Acts 7:11 οὐχ

    Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

  9. Acts 7:18 οὐκ

    Then another king, who knew nothing of Joseph, arose over Egypt.

  10. Acts 7:25 οὐ

    He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

  11. Acts 7:32 οὐκ

    ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

  12. Acts 7:39 οὐκ

    But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

  13. Acts 7:40 οὐκ

    They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

  14. Acts 7:48 οὐχ

    However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

  15. Acts 7:52 οὐκ

    Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

  16. Acts 7:53 οὐκ

    you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

  17. Acts 8:21 οὐκοὐκ

    You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

  18. Acts 8:32 οὐκ

    The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

  19. Acts 8:39 οὐκ

    When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.

  20. Acts 9:9 οὐκ

    For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.

  21. Acts 9:21 Οὐχ

    All who heard him were astounded and asked, “Isn’t this the man who wreaked havoc in Jerusalem on those who call on this name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

  22. Acts 10:34 οὐκ

    Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

  23. not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

  24. Acts 12:9 οὐκ

    So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

  25. Acts 12:14 οὐκ

    When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”

  26. Acts 12:18 οὐκ

    At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

  27. Acts 12:22 οὐκ

    And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

  28. Acts 12:23 οὐκ

    Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

  29. and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

  30. Acts 13:25 οὐκοὐκ

    As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But He is coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’

  31. So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’

  32. Acts 13:37 οὐκ

    But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

  33. Acts 13:39 οὐκ

    Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

  34. ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

  35. Acts 13:46 οὐκ

    Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

  36. Acts 14:17 οὐκ

    Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”

  37. Acts 14:28 οὐκ

    And they spent a long time there with the disciples.

  38. Acts 15:1 οὐ

    Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

  39. Acts 15:2 οὐκ

    And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.

  40. It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.

  41. Acts 16:7 οὐκ

    And when they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.

  42. Acts 16:21 οὐκ

    by promoting customs that are unlawful for us Romans to adopt or practice.”

  43. But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”

  44. Acts 17:4 οὐκ

    Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.

  45. Acts 17:12 οὐκ

    As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

  46. Acts 17:24 οὐκ

    The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

  47. God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

  48. Acts 17:29 οὐκ

    Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

  49. But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”

  50. Acts 18:20 οὐκ

    When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.

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