Lexical Definition

‎οὐχί‎ ouchí (oo-khee') not! ^G:PRT-N
intensive of ‎οὐ‎

nay, not.

• not indeed

Abbott-Smith

οὐχί, strengthened form of οὐ,
not;
(a) in neg. sentences, not, not at all: Lk 1:60 12:51, Jo 13:10, al.;
(b) more freq. in questions where an affirm. ans. is expected (Lat. nonne): Mt 5:46, 47, Lk 6:39, Jo 11:9, al.

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

form of: οὐ

Included with: οὐχί,

the negative of fact and statement, as μή of will and thought; οὐχί denies, μή rejects; οὐχί is absolute, μή relative; οὐχί objective, μή subjective. —The same differences hold for all compounds of οὐχί and μή, and some examples of οὐχίδέ and οὐχίδείς are included below.—As to the Form, see infr. G. USAG[Refs 5th c.BC+]

__I as the negative of single words,
__II as the negative of the sentence.
__I οὐχί adhering to single words so as to form a quasi-compound with them:—with Verbs: οὐχί δίδωμι withhold, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐχίκ εἰῶ prevent, [Refs]; οὐχίκ ἐθέλω refuse, [Refs]; οὔ φημι deny, [οὐχί when the \_construction\_ requires it, e.g. εἰ μή φησι ταῦτα ἀληθῆ εἶναι 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 34 ">Refs 4th c.BC+]; but sometimes οὐχί is retained, εἰ δ᾽ ἂν.. οὐχίκ ἐθέλωσιν [οὐχί φάσκῃ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.76 ">Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐάντε.. οὐχί (variant{μή}) φῆτε ἐάντε φῆτε [οὐχίκ ἐθέλων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.224, 300, 6.165, etc.:— with Adjectives: οὐχίκ ἀέκοντε 5.366, 768, +others; οὐχί πολλήν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.7, etc.:— with Adverbs: οὐχίχ ἥκιστα [prev. author] 1.68, etc.: rarely with Verbal Nouns (see. below 11.10).">Refs 8th c.BC+] —On the use of οὐχί in contrasts, see below [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II as negativing the whole sentence,
__II.1 οὐχί is frequently used alone, sometimes with the ellipsis of a definite Verb, οὔκ (i.e. ἀποκερῇ), ἄν γε ἐμοὶ πείθῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes as negativing the preceding sentence, [Refs 5th c.BC+] and the accusative; sometimes without μά, οὐχί τὸν πάντων θεῶν θεὸν πρόμον Ἅλιον [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 with indicative of statement, τὴν δ᾽ ἐγὼ οὐχί λύσω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐχί φθίνει Κροίσου φιλόφρων ἀρετά [οὐχίκ ἂν ὑπεξέφυγε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.369. ">Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.3 with subjunctive in future sense, only in Epic dialect, οὐχί γάρ τίς με βίῃ γε ἑκὼν ἀέκοντα δίηται [οὐχίκ ἄν τοι χραίς μῃ κίθαρις 3.54, compare 11.387. ">Refs]
__II.4 with optative in potential sense (without ἄν or κεν), also Epic dialect, ὃ οὐχί δύο γ᾽ ἄνδρε φέροιεν [Refs]
__II.5 with optative and ἄν, κείνοισι δ᾽ ἂν οὔ τις.. μαχέοιτο [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.6 in dependent clauses οὐχί is used,
__II.6.a with ὅτι or ὡς, after Verbs of saying, knowing, and showing, ἐκ μέν τοι ἐρέω.. ὡς ἐγὼ οὔ τι ἑκὼν κατερύκομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: so with indicative or optative and ἄν, ἀπελογοῦντο ὡς οὐχίκ ἄν ποτε οὕτω μωροὶ ἦσαν [οὐχίκ ἂν δικαίως αὐτοὺς δέχοισθε μαθεῖν χρή 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.40, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.1.3, etc.: with \_optative\_ representing \_indicative\_ in indirect speech, ἔλεξε παιδὶ σῷ.. ὡς.. Ἕλληνες οὐχί μενοῖεν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 358, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 346, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.38, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 22b, etc.: for μή">Refs 5th c.BC+] in such sentences, see at {μή} [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.6.b in all causal sentences, and in temporal and Relat. sentences unless there is conditional or final meaning, χωσαμένη, ὅ οἱ οὔ τι θαλύσια.. ῥέξε [οὐχί κάρτα θεραπεύεται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80; διότι οὐχίκ ἦσαν δίκαι, οὐχί δυνατοὶ ἦμεν παρ᾽ αὐτῶν ἃ ὤφειλον πράξασθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 17.3; μή με κτεῖν᾽, ἐπεὶ οὐχίχ ὁμογάστριος Ἕκτορός εἰμι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.95, etc.; νῦν δὲ ἐπειδὴ οὐχίκ ἐθέλεις.., εἶμι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 335c; ἐπειδὴ τὸ χωρίον οὐχίχ ἡλίσκετο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.102; νηπιάχοις οἷς οὔ τι μέλει πολεμήϊα ἔργα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.338, etc.">Refs 8th c.BC+]: in causal relative sentences, οἵτινές σε οὐχίχὶ ἐσώσαμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially in the combinations, οὐχίκ ἔστιν ὅστις οὐχί.., as οὐχίκ ἔστ᾽ ἐραστὴς ὅστις οὐχίκ ἀεὶ φιλεῖ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐχίδείς ἐστιν ὅστις οὐχί.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.6.c after ὥστε with indicative or optative with ἄν, ὥστ᾽ οὐχί δυνατόν σ᾽ εἵργειν ἔσται [οὐχίκ ἂν ἐθελήσαιμεν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.45; οὐχίκ ἂν ὡρκίζομεν αὐτὸν ὥστε τῆς εἰρήνης ἂν διημαρτήκει καὶ οὐχίκ ἂν ἀμφότερ᾽ εἶχε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.30: ὥστε οὐχί with ">Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive is almost invariably due to indirect speech, ὥστ᾽ οὐχίκ αἰσχύνεσθαι (for οὐχίκ αἰσχύνονται) [Refs 5th c.BC+]—Rarely not in indirect speech, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.7 in a conditional clause μή is necessary, except,
__II.7.a in [Refs 8th c.BC+] clause precedes the apodosis and the verb is indicative, εἰ δέ μοι οὐχίκ ἐπέεσσ᾽ ἐπιπείσεται [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.7.b when the εἰ clause is really causal, as after Verbs expressing surprise or emotion, μὴ θαυμάσῃς, εἰ πολλὰ τῶν εἰρημένων οὐχί πρέπει σοι [οὐχίδεὶς ἐς ἑκατοστὸν ἔτος περιέσται 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.46, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242; so also δεινὸν γὰρ ἂν εἴη πρῆγμα, εἰ Σάκας μὲν καταστρεψάμενοι δούλους ἔχομεν, Ἕλληνας δὲ οὐχί τιμωρησόμεθα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.102, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.8 (probably), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.55; οὐχίκ αἰσχρόν, εἰ τὸ μὲν Ἀργείων πλῆθος οὐχίκ ἐφοβήθη τὴν Λακεδαιμονίων ἀρχήν, ὑμεῖς δ᾽ ὄντες Ἀθηναῖοι βάρβαρον ἄνθρωπον.. φοβήσεσθ; [prev. author] 15.23, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.97, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.13. ">Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.7.c when οὐχί belongs closely to the next word (see. [Refs 4th c.BC+], or is quoted unchanged, εἰ, ὡς νῦν φήσει, οὐχί παρεσκευάσατο [Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰ δ᾽ οὐχίκέτ᾽ ἐστί (i.e. ὥσπερ λέγεις), τίνι τρόπῳ διεφθάρη ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.8 οὐχί is used with infinitive in indirect speech, when it represents the indicative of orat. recta, φαμὲν δέ οἱ οὐχί τελέεσθαι [οὐχίκ εἶναι αὐτόνομοι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.67, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.18; οἶμαι.. οὐχίκ ὀλίγον ἔργον αὐτὸ εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369b, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1051, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.71, etc.; ἡγήσαντο ἡμᾶς οὐχί περιόψεσθαι [prev. work] 39. (For the occasional use of μή, see at {μή} 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5c">Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes we have οὐχί and μή in consecutive clauses, οἶμαι σοῦ κάκιον οὐχίδὲν ἂν τούτων κρατύνειν μηδ᾽ ἐπιθύνειν χερί [οὐχί διδακτὸν εἶναι μηδὲ.. παρασκευαστόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 319b.) ">Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.9 οὐχί is used with the participle, when it can be resolved into a finite sentence with οὐχί, as after Verbs of knowing and showing, τὸν κατθανόνθ᾽ ὁρῶντες οὐχί τιμώμενον [οὐχί πολλοὺς τοὺς Θηβαίους ὄντας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2. 3; ἔργῳ δηλώσω οὐχί παραγενόμενος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.8, etc.">Refs 5th c.BC+]; or into a causal sentence, τῶν βαρβάρων οἱ πολλοὶ ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ διεφθάρησαν νέειν οὐχίκ ἐπιστάμενοι [οὐχίκ ἀπὸ ξυμβάσεως ἀνοιχθεῖσαν διήρπασαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.130 ">Refs 5th c.BC+]; or into a concessive sentence, δόξω γυναῖκα καίπερ οὐχίκ ἔχων ἔχειν [Refs 5th c.BC+] and participle, ὡς οὐχίχὶ συνδράσουσα νουθετεῖς τάδε [οὐχί ποιήσοντες ταῦτα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.73, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 884, “Aj.” 682, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.99, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2, 5, 28, 68, 90; ὥσπερ οὐχί πάντας τούτῳ τῷ τεκμηρίῳ χρωμένους 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 90, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.11 ">Refs 5th c.BC+]:—for exceptions, see at {μή} [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.9.b when the participle is used with the Article, μή is generally used, unless there is a distinct reference to a fact, when οὐχί is occasionally found, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς οὐχίκ οὔσης ἔτι [πόλεως] ὁρμώμενοι [οὐχίδὲν εἰδότας [prev. author] 4.111; οἱ οὐχίκ ἐθέλοντες 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.26; τῶν οὐχί βουλομένων 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.9; τοὺς οὐχίδὲν ἀδικοῦντας ἀκρίτους ἀπέκτειναν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.82, compare τὸν οὐχίδὲ συμπενθῆσαι τὰς τῆς πατρίδος συμφορὰς τολμήσαντα (preceded by τὸν.. μήτε ὅπλα θέμενον ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος μήτε τὸ σῶμα παρασχόντα κτλ.) 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 43; τὸ οὐχίχ εὑρημένον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 427e. ">Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.10 Adjectives and abstract Substantives with the article commonly take μή (see. μή [οὐχί">Refs 5th c.BC+] is occasionally used, τὰς οὐχίκ ἀναγκαίας πόσεις [οὐχίδένας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 371; τὸν οὐχίδέν [prev. author] “Ph.” 598 (whereas ὁ μηδείς, τὸ μηδέν is the rule)">Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν τῶν γεφυρῶν οὐχί διάλυσιν the non- dissolution of the bridges, the fact of their notbeing broken up, [οὐχί περιτείχισις [prev. author] 3.95; ἡ τῶν χωρίων οὐχίκ ἀπόδοσις [prev. author] 5.35, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 196 (\_anapaest meter\_)">Refs 5th c.BC+]; so without the article, ἐν οὐχί καιπῷ [οὐχί πάλης ὕπο [prev. work] 455. ">Refs]
__II.11 for οὐχί μή, see entry
__II.12 in questions οὐχί ordinarily expects a positive answer, οὔ νυ καὶ ἄλλοι ἔασι..; [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐχίχ ὁράᾳς..; dost thou not see? [οὐχίκ.. ᾐσθόμη; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 956">Refs 8th c.BC+]: so as a strong form of imperative,;[οὐχίχ; [prev. author] “Supp.” 918, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1027">Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμὸς μὲν οὐχίχί [NT+5th c.BC+]: the diphthong is genuine and always written ου (ουκ, ουδε, etc.) in early Inscrr., [Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐχί abbreviated ο, Suid. see at {Φιλοξένου γραμμάτιον}.
__H ACCENTUATION. οὐχί is oxytone accusative to Hdn.Gr.1.494 (text doubtfulin 504): [οὐχί ={οὒ}) καταπύθεται ὄμβρῳ, says λύουσι.. τῇ προσῳδίᾳ λέγοντες τὸ ου ὀξύτερον (i.e. οὗ), compare 178b3. In codices the word is written oxytone when followed by a pause (see. supr. B), and is usually written without any accent in other cases. ">Refs 8th c.BC+]
__H.I οὐχί in connexion with other Particles will be found in alphabetical order, οὐχί γάρ, οὐχί μή, etc.—The corresponding forms of μή should be compared.

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: 1Cor.5.12}