ouchi · not

What it means

ouchi (οὐχί) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “not”.

(in questions that expect "yes").

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A strong negation; in questions, it expects the answer yes.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• not ×20
• No ×7
• it not ×6
• will not ×4
• will he not ×3
• Are not ×2
• Do not ×2
• did you not ×2
• does not ×2
• Are there not ×1
• others ×4

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Luke×18
• John×5
• Acts×2
• Romans×3
• 1 Corinthians×12
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×2

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 5:47

  And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

• Matthew 6:25

  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

• Matthew 10:29

  Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

• Matthew 12:11

  But he said to them, “What man will there be among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

• Matthew 13:27

  And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where does it get darnel?’

• Matthew 13:56

  And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”

• Matthew 18:12

  What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is going astray?

• Matthew 20:13

  But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

• Luke 1:60

  And his mother answered and said, “No; rather, he will be called John.”

• Luke 4:22

  And all were testifying about him and marveling at the words of grace that were coming out of his mouth, and they were saying, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

• Luke 6:39

  And he also told them a parable: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

• Luke 12:6

  Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

• Luke 12:51

  Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

• Luke 13:3

  No, I tell you; but unless you change your minds, you will all likewise perish.

• Luke 13:5

  No, I tell you; but unless you change your minds, you will all perish in the same way.”

• Luke 14:28

  For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has enough for completion?

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

• Luke 16:30

  But he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will change their minds.’

• Luke 17:8

  Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare what I may have for supper, and tie up your robe and serve me while I eat and drink, and after that you will eat and drink’?

• Luke 17:17

  And Jesus answered and said, “Were not the ten cleansed? But the nine, where are they?

• Luke 18:30

  who will not receive back many times as much in this time, and in the age to come, eternal life.”

• Luke 22:27

  For who is greater, the one who reclines at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

• Luke 23:39

  And one of the criminals who were hanging there was blaspheming him, saying, “Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

• Luke 24:26

  Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

• Luke 24:32

  And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road, while he was opening to us the Scriptures?”

• John 9:9

  Others were saying, “It is he”; others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”

• John 11:9

  Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

• John 13:10

  Jesus says to him, “Whoever has bathed has no need except to wash the feet, but is entirely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”

• John 13:11

  For he knew the one who was handing him over; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

• John 14:22

  Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

• Acts 5:4

  While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And after it was sold, was it not under your authority? Why did you put this deed in your heart? You did not lie to people but to God.”

• Acts 7:50

  Did not my hand make all these things?’

• Romans 3:27

  Where, then, is boasting? It was excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

• Romans 3:29

  Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not also of the nations? Yes, also of the nations,

• Romans 8:32

  He who indeed did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also with him freely give us all things?

• 1 Corinthians 1:20

  Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made foolish the wisdom of the world?

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

And 13 more times.