οὐδέ (from 
Homer down), a neg. disjunctive conjunction, compounded of 
οὐ and 
δέ, and therefore properly, equivalent to 
but not; generally, however, its oppositive force being lost, it serves to continue a negation. (On the elision of 
ἐ when the next word begins with a vowel (observed by 
Tdf. in eight instances, neglected in fifty-eight), see 
Tdf. Proleg., p. 96; cf. 
WHs Appendix, p. 146; 
Winers Grammar, § 5, 1 a.; 
Buttmann, p. 10f) It signifies: 
1. and not, continuing a negation, yet differently from 
οὔτε; for the latter connects parts or members of the same thing, since 
τέ is adjunctive like the Latin 
que; but 
οὐδέ places side by side things that are equal and mutually exclude each other [(?). There appears to be some mistake here in what is said about 'mutual exclusion' (cf. 
Winer's Grammar, § 55, 6): 
οὐδέ, like 
δέ, always makes reference to something preceding; 
οὔτε to what follows also; the connection of clauses made negative by 
οὔτε is close and internal, so that they are mutually complementary and combine into a unity, whereas clauses negatived by 
οὐδέ follow one another much more loosely, often almost by accident as it were; see 
Winer's Grammar, at the passage cited, and especially the quotations there given from Benfey and Klotz.] It differs from 
μηδέ as 
οὐ does from 
μή [which see ad at the beginning]; after 
οὐ, where each has its own verb: 
Matthew 5:15 6:28; 
Mark 4:22; 
Luke 6:44; 
Acts 2:27; 
Acts 9:9; 
Acts 17:24; 
Galatians 1:17; 
Galatians 4:14; 
οὐκ οἶδα οὐδέ ἐπίσταμαι, 
Mark 14:68 R G L marginal reading (others, 
οὔτε... 
οὔτε) (
Cicero, pro Rosc. American 43, 
non novi neque scio); cf. 
Winers Grammar, 490 (456) c.; (
Buttmann, 367 (315) note); 
οὐ... 
οὐδέ... 
οὐδέ, 
not... nor... nor, Matthew 6:26; 
οὐδείς... 
οὐδέ... 
οὐδέ... 
οὐδέ, 
Revelation 5:3 (
R G; cf. 
Buttmann, 367 (315); 
Winer's Grammar, 491 (457)); 
οὐ... 
οὐδέ; followed by a future... 
οὐδέ μή followed by subjunctive aorist... 
οὐδέ, 
Revelation 7:16. 
οὐ... 
οὐδέ, the same verb being common to both: 
Matthew 10:24; 
Matthew 25:13; 
Luke 6:43; 
Luke 8:17 (cf. 
Winers Grammar, 300 (281); 
Buttmann, 355 (305) cf. § 139, 7); 
John 6:24; 
John 13:16; 
Acts 8:21; 
Acts 16:21; 
Acts 24:18; 
Romans 2:28; 
Romans 9:16; 
Galatians 1:1; 
Galatians 3:28; 
1 Thessalonians 5:5; 
1 Timothy 2:12; 
Revelation 21:23. preceded by 
οὔπω, 
Mark 8:17; — by 
οὐδείς, 
Matthew 9:17; — by 
ἵνα μή, which is followed by 
οὐδέ... 
οὐδέ, where 
μηδέ... 
μηδέ might have been expected (cf. 
Buttmann, § 148, 8; (
Winer's Grammar, 474 (442))) 
Revelation 9:4. 
οὐδέ γάρ, 
for neither, John 8:42; 
Romans 8:7. 
2. also not (
A. V. generally 
neither): 
Matthew 6:15; 
Matthew 21:27; 
Matthew 25:45; 
Mark 11:26 (
R L); 
Luke 16:31; 
John 15:4; 
Romans 4:15; 
Romans 11:21; 
1 Corinthians 15:13, 
16; 
Galatians 1:12 (
οὐδέ γάρ ἐγώ (cf. 
Buttmann, 367 (315) note; 492 (458))); 
Hebrews 8:4, etc.; 
ἀλλ' οὐδέ, 
Luke 23:15; 
ἤ οὐδέ, in a question, 
or doth not even etc.? 
1 Corinthians 11:14 Rec.; the simple 
οὐδέ, num ne quidem (
have ye not even etc.) in a question where a negative answer is assumed (see 
οὐ, 7): 
Mark 12:10; 
Luke 6:3; 
Luke 23:40; and 
G L T Tr WH in 
1 Corinthians 11:14. 
3. not even (
Buttmann, 369 (316)): 
Matthew 6:29; 
Matthew 8:10; 
Mark 6:31; 
Luke 7:9; 
Luke 12:27; 
John 21:25 (
Tdf. omits the verse); 
1 Corinthians 5:1; 
1 Corinthians 14:21; 
οὐδέ εἷς (
Winers Grammar, 173 (163); 
Buttmann, § 127, 32), 
Acts 4:32; 
Romans 3:10; 
1 Corinthians 6:5 (
L T Tr WH οὐδείς); 
οὐδέ ἕν, 
John 1:3; 
ἀλλ' οὐδέ, 
Acts 19:2; 
1 Corinthians 3:2 (
Rec. ἀλλ' οὔτε); 
1 Corinthians 4:3; 
Galatians 2:3. in a double negative for the sake of emphasis, 
οὐκ... 
οὐδέ (
Buttmann, 369 (316); 
Winer's Grammar, 500 (465)): 
Matthew 27:14; 
Luke 18:13; 
Acts 7:5. 
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