Mark 13:19:23Mark.13.19.W23TAB
μὴ
mê
“certainly not”
- Transliteration
- mê
- Extended
- may
- IPA
- /mɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- certainly not
Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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mê
- sentence
E-so-ntai gar hai hê-ME-rai e-KEI-nai THLI-psis HOI-a ou GE-go-nen toi-AU-tê ap ar-KHÊS KTI-se-ōs hên EK-ti-sen ho the-OS HE-ōs tou NYN kai ou mê GE-nê-tai
Exegesis
The temporal marker heos tou nyn {ἕως τοῦ νῦν | héōs tou nyn} ‘until now’ completes the backward-looking time span, while the closing clause kai ou me genetai {καὶ οὐ μὴ γένηται | kaí ou mē génētai} employs the strong ou mē + subjunctive construction to deny any future recurrence: ‘and it will certainly not happen’. In English, the clauses are slightly rearranged into a more natural subject–verb–complement order, while preserving the escalating structure: unparalleled tribulation, unmatched from creation’s beginning until the present, and guaranteed never to be repeated.
Root and etymology
oikodomeōomicron–iota–kappa–omicron–delta–omicron–mu–epsilon–omega
“to build up, construct”
In context — Mark 13:19
For those days will be a tribulation such as has not occurred from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
About this coordinate
Mark 13:19:23 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 23 of Mark 13:19, so the Greek word μὴ (mê) 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 Mark.13.19.W23, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.13.19.W23.S1) and character.