1 Corinthians 15:36:81 Cor.15.36.W8TAB

μὴ

not

Transliteration
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IPA
/ˈmɛː/

Meaning by language

English
not

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Mum — as in mother
Etai — as in machine

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    A-phrōn SY HO SPEI-reis ou dzō-o-poi-EI-tai e-AN MÊ a-po-THA-nêi

Exegesis

The conditional conjunction ean {ἐὰν | e-án} with me {μὴ | mḕ} and the aorist subjunctive apothane {ἀποθάνῃ | a-po-thánē} in the protasis require that death must occur before life. This structure moves from the rebuke to the illustrative principle that life follows death. Both English reconstructions preserve the sequence by maintaining the vocative, treating the relative clause as the subject, and rendering the indispensable “unless” clause for the main assertion.

Root and etymology

euangelizōepsilon–upsilon–alpha–gamma–gamma–epsilon–lambda–iota–zeta–omega

to announce good news

In context1 Corinthians 15:36

O senseless one , what you sow does not receive life unless it dies.

About this coordinate

1 Corinthians 15:36:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of 1 Corinthians 15:36, so the Greek word μὴ () can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Cor.15.36.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Cor.15.36.W8.S1) and character.