οὐδείς

οὐδείς, οὐδεμία, οὐδέν (Hom.+.—The forms οὐθείς [Hs 9, 5, 6], οὐθέν [Lk 23:14; Ac 15:9; 19:27; 26:26; 1 Cor 13:2; Hm 4, 2, 1], οὐθενός [Lk 22:35; Ac 20:33 v.l.; 2 Cor 11:9] for which οὐδ-is freq. read as v.l. in mss. and edd., appear in the lit. since Aristotle [Jos., Ant. 5, 250; 6, 47 al.], in ins [Meisterhans³-Schw. 258f], and in pap [Mayser 181f], PStras II, 125, 4 [5/4 B.C.]; on the forms s. B-D-F §33; W-S. §5, 27f and note 62; Mlt-H. 111f; JWackernagel, Hellenistica 1907, 23; New Docs 2, 83; 4, 164f.—The LXX usage in Thackeray p. 58–62).

① as an adj. no οὐδεὶς προφήτης Lk 4:24. Cp. 16:13. παροιμία οὐδεμία J 16:29. Cp. 18:38; Ac 25:18; 27:22. οὐδὲν εἴδωλον 1 Cor 8:4a. οὐδὲν χρείαν ἔχω Rv 3:17. Cp. J 10:41. οὐδεὶς ἄλλος (UPZ 71, 15 [152 B.C.]) 15:24.—οὐδεμία ἐκκλησία … εἰ μὴ ὑμεῖς Phil 4:15.—W. other negatives: οὐ … οὐδεμίαν δύναμιν Mk 6:5.

② as a subst.

ⓐ οὐδείς no one, nobody Mt 6:24; 8:10; 9:16; Mk 2:21f; 5:4; 7:24; Lk 5:36f, 39; J 1:18 (οὐδεὶς πώποτε as PGM 5, 102 Osiris, ὸ̔ν οὐδεὶς εἶδε πώποτε; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 124); Ro 14:7b; 1 Cor 2:11; 3:11 and oft.—W. partitive gen. (Epict. 4, 1, 3 οὐδεὶς τ. φαύλων; Jos., Ant. 3, 321 οὐδεὶς τ. ἱερέων; Just., D. 16, 3 οὐδεὶς γὰρ ὑμῶν; Tat. 6:1 οὐδεμία τῶν ψυχῶν) οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων no one at all Mk 11:2. Cp. Lk 14:24. οὐδεὶς τ. ἀνακειμένων J 13:28. τῶν λοιπῶν οὐδείς none of the others Ac 5:13. οὐδ. ὑμῶν 27:34 (Diod S 14, 65, 2 οὐδεὶς ἡμῶν). Cp. Ro. 14:7a. Instead of the part. gen. we may have ἐκ (Jos., Bell. 7, 398) Lk 1:61; J 7:19; 16:5.—οὐδεὶς … εἰ μή no one … except Mt 11:27; 17:8; Mk 10:18; Lk 10:22; 18:19; J 14:6; 1 Cor 1:14; 8:4b; Rv 2:17; 14:3; 19:12. οὐδεὶς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπώλετο εἰ μή J 17:12.—Also οὐδεὶς … ἐὰν μή J 3:2; 6:44, 65. Used w. other negatives (Appian, Samn. 11 §4 οὐδένα λαβεῖν οὐδέν, οὔτε … οὔτε=nobody accepted anything, neither … nor) οὐ … οὐδείς (Appian, Bell. Civ. 1. 19 §80=nobody; Diog. L. 1, 53) Mt 22:16; Mk 3:27; 5:37; 12:14; Lk 8:43; J 8:15; 18:31; Ac 4:12; 1 Cor 6:5. οὓς δέδωκάς μοι οὐκ ἀπώλεσα ἐξ αὐτῶν οὐδένα J 18:9. οὐκέτι … οὐδείς Mk 9:8. οὐδεὶς οὔπω no one yet Lk 23:53 (v.l. οὐδέπω); οὐδεὶς οὔπω ἀνθρώπων Mk 11:2. οὐδέπω οὐδείς J 19:41; Ac 8:16. οὐδεὶς οὐκέτι Mk 12:34; Rv 18:11. οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι οὐδείς Mk 5:3.—οὐδενὶ οὐδέν 16:8 (Appian, Liby. 128 §613 οὐδὲν οὐδείς=no one [set fire to] anything [ruling out all exceptions]; Just., D. 44, 2 οὐδεὶς γὰρ οὐδέν … οὐδαμόθεν λαβεῖν ἔχει. For lit. on the silence of women s. FNeirynck, Evangelica ’82, 247–51). Cp. Lk 9:36. οὐδὲ … οὐδείς J 5:22.

ⓑ οὐδέν nothing

α. lit. οὐδὲν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν Mt 17:20. Cp. 10:26; 26:62; 27:12; Mk 7:15; J 1:3 v.l. Foll. by partitive gen. Lk 9:36b; 18:34; Ac 18:17; Rv 3:17 v.l. (Mussies 183). Foll. by εἰ μή nothing but Mt 5:13; 21:19; Mk 9:29; 11:13. οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς ὧν nothing but what Ac 26:22. οὐδὲν αὐτοῦ διεφθάρη no part of (Jonah) was damaged AcPlCor 2:30. Used w. other negatives: οὐ … οὐδέν Mk 14:60f; 15:4; Lk 4:2; J 3:27 v.l. (for οὐδὲ ἕν); 5:30; 9:33; 11:49. οὐ … οὐδενὶ τούτων 1 Cor 9:15a. οὐ … οὐδέν, ἄν (=ἐὰν) μή J 5:19. οὐκέτι … οὐδέν Mk 7:12; 15:5; Lk 20:40. οὐδὲν ὑμᾶς οὐ μὴ ἀδικήσει Lk 10:19 (s. ἀδικέω 2).

β. nonliterally worthless, meaningless, invalid (X., Cyr. 6, 2, 8; Diod S 14, 35, 5; Dio Chrys. 4, 60; 15 [32], 101 οὐδέν ἐστι=it means nothing, is unimportant; Tat. 27, 2 τῶν πολλῶν θεῶν ἡ ὁμήγυρις οὐδέν ἐστιν ‘the assembly of many gods amounts to nothing’) ὸ̔ς ἂν ὀμόσῃ ἐν τ. ναῷ, οὐδέν ἐστιν (the oath of) one who who swears by the temple is not binding Mt 23:16, 18. Cp. J 8:54; 1 Cor 7:19ab. εἰ καὶ οὐδέν εἰμι 2 Cor 12:11b. οὐθέν εἰμι 1 Cor 13:2 ([Tat. 26, 3 οὐδέν ἐστε] on the neut. referring to a masc. subj. s. B-D-F §131; Rob. 751).—Ac 21:24; 25:11.—γενέσθαι εἰς οὐδέν 5:36. εἰς οὐδὲν δὲ συνέβη τελευτῆσαι τὴν τάξιν αὐτῶν ultimately the (angels’) status was terminated Papias (4). εἰς οὐθὲν λογισθῆναι Ac 19:27. Antonym τίς 2.

γ. the acc. οὐδέν in no respect, in no way (Dio Chrys. 52 [69], 6; Just., D. 14, 1 οὐδὲν ὑμῖν χρήσιμοι; 68, 1 οὐδὲν ἂν βλαβείην.—B-D-F §154; 160; Rob. 751) οὐδὲν διαφέρει (the heir) differs in no respect Gal 4:1. οὐθὲν διέκρινεν Ac 15:9. Ἰουδαίους οὐδὲν ἠδίκηκα 25:10; cp. Gal 4:12. οὐδὲν ὑστέρησα 2 Cor 12:11a. οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι 1 Cor 13:3. οὐδὲν γάρ σε ταῦτα ὠφελήσει AcPl Ha 2, 23. ἡ σὰρξ οὐκ ὠφελεῖ οὐδέν J 6:63. οὐδὲν οὐδενὸς χρῄζει εἰ μή (the Lord) requires nothing at all, except 1 Cl 52:1. οὐδὲν ἥμαρτεν Μάρκος οὕτως ἔνια γράψας ὡς ἀπεμνημόνευσεν Mark was not at fault in recording some things as he remembered them Papias (2:15). On οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει Gal 2:6 s. διαφέρω 3.—W. the same mng. ἐν οὐδενί Phil 1:20.—Somet. the later usage οὐδέν = οὐ (Aristoph., Eccl. 644; Dionys. Hal. [Rdm. 32, 5]; Epict. 4, 10, 36; POxy 1683, 13; BGU 948, 13) suggests itself, e.g. Ac 18:17; Rv 3:17.—M-M. Sv.