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adverb

Greekμηδαμῶς (mēdamōs)
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mēdamōs

Strong’sG3365

by no means, not at all

stem mēdamō-2 times in the New Testamentnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

μηδαμῶς

(= μηδαμῆ, -δαμά, adv. fr. μηδαμός = μηδείς), [in LXX chiefly for הָלִלָה, הָלילָה;]

by no means, not at all. μ., Κύριε (sc. τοῦτο γένοιτο), Ac 10:14 11:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3365 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmay-dam-oce'

by no means

Fromadverb from a compound of G3361 and ἀμός (somebody);

King Jamesnot so.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
μηδᾰμ-ῶς,
adverb of μηδαμός, ={μηδαμῇ}, Refs 5th c.BC+: in replies, as a strong negative, Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

by no means2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

Mēdamōs2×

Acts 10:14“by no means”tos de Petros legata; Mēdamōs, kurior, hoti oudepote esthiama pantem koinem …“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or …

Acts 11:8“by no means”legama de; Mēdamōs, kurior, hoti koinem ē akathartem oudepote …‘No, Lord,’ I said, ‘for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my …