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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g3763 Greek: oudepote

Never:

from oude, "not even," and pote, "at any time," is used in definite negative statements, e.g., Mat 7:23; 1Cr 13:8; Hbr 10:1, 11, or questions, e.g., Mat 21:16, 42; in Luk 15:29 (1st part), RV, "never" (AV, "neither... at any time"); AV and RV, "never" (2nd part).

2 Strong's Number: g3368 Greek: medepote

Never:

virtually the same as No. 1, the negative me, however, conveying a less strong declarative negation, 2Ti 3:7.

3 Strong's Number: g3764 Greek: oudepo

Never:

"not yet," is translated "never (man) yet" in Jhn 19:41 ("man" representing the idiomatically used negative pronoun oudeis, "no one"); some mss. have it in Luk 23:53, instead of oupo, "not yet."

Notes:

(1) In Mar 14:21, AV the negative particle ouk, "not," is translated "never" (RV, "not"); the negative particle me, "not" (which suggests non-existence when the existence was after all possible, or even probable, in contrast to ou, which implies non-existence absolutely) is translated "never" in Jhn 7:15, AV and RV

(2) The phrase eis ton aiona, "for ever" (not to be rendered literally, "unto the age," see ETERNAL), preceded by the double negative ou me, denotes "never," Jhn 4:14; 8:51, 52; 10:28; 11:26; 13:8; so preceded by ouk, "not," in Mar 3:29

(3) In 2Pe 1:10, "never" is the translation of ou me pote, i.e., "by no means ever;" so with the double negative followed by the extended word popote, i.e., "by no means not even at any time," Jhn 6:35 (2nd part).

(4) Popote follows oudeis, "no one," in the dative case ("to no man"); so in Luk 19:30, where oudeis is in the nominative case, RV, "no man ever yet" (AV, "yet never man").

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