mētige

Strong’sG3386

how much more

stem mētige-once 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.

μή-τι-γε

(μήτι γε, Rec., L; μή τι γε, Tr.), >strengthened form of μήτι,

let alone: i.e. according to context;

(a) much less;

(b) much more: I Co 6:3.†

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

Strong’s G3386 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmay'-tig-eh

not at all then, i.e. not to say (the rather still)

Fromfrom G3385 and G1065;

King Jameshow much more.

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

Related to: μήτῐς
or μή τις, ὁ, ἡ, neuter μήτῐ, genitive μήτῐνος: (τὶς) old Gr. and Cretan dialect for μηδείς, Refs 8th c.BC+; Cretan dialect dative singular μηδιμί Refs —hence
1 μήτι or μή τι, adverb, with imperative, and infinitive used imperatively, Refs 8th c.BC+: with optative to express a wish, ὄλοιντο μή τι πάντες Refs 5th c.BC+
2 after Verbs of fear or doubt, Refs 8th c.BC+
3 in direct questions, μή τί σοι δοκῶ ταρβεῖ; do I.. ? (i.e. I do not), NT+4th c.BC+
4 μή τί γε let alone, much less, οὐδὲ στρατιώτης οὗτός γε οὐδενός ἐστιν ἄξιος, μή τί γε τῶν ἄλλων ἡγεμών Refs 4th c.BC+; later, not to mention, οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἀγγέλους κρινοῦμε; μήτι γε βιωτικά NT: with a word between, ὡς.. δώσοντι δίκην, μή τι ποιήσαντί γε Refs 5th 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.

not1×

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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mētige1×

1 Corinthians 6:3“not”ouk oidavē hoti angeloin krinani, mētige biōtikeim?Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!