μὴ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 μὴ

   MÊ

   not
2. sentence🔊 σὺ οὖν μὴ πεισθῇς αὐτοῖς ἐνεδρεύουσιν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες πλείους τεσσεράκοντα οἵτινες ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἑαυτοὺς μήτε φαγεῖν μήτε πιεῖν ἕως οὗ ἀνέλωσιν αὐτόν καὶ νῦν εἰσιν ἕτοιμοι προσδεχόμενοι τὴν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἐπαγγελίαν

   sy oun MÊ peis-THÊS au-TOIS e-ne-DREU-ou-sin gar au-TON eks au-TÔN AN-dres PLEI-ous te-se-RA-kon-ta HOI-ti-nes a-ne-the-MA-ti-san he-au-TOUS MÊ-te pha-GEIN MÊ-te pi-EIN HE-ōs hou a-NE-lō-sin au-TON kai NYN EI-sin HE-toi-moi pros-de-KHO-me-noi tên a-PO sou e-paŋ-ge-LI-an

   you therefore not be persuaded by them are lying in wait for him from of them men more forty who bound under an oath themselves neither to eat nor to drink until when they kill him and now they are ready waiting for the from your promise

Exegesis

The sentence opens with the fronted pronoun su oun mē peisthēs autois {σὺ οὖν μὴ πεισθῇς αὐτοῖς | sù oûn mḕ peisthêis autoîs}, where the combination of mē with the aorist subjunctive forms a strong prohibition, and the explicit subject su heightens the personal appeal to the official being addressed.