Lexical Summary nē: by (a particle of affirmation employed in oaths) Original Word: νήTransliteration: nē Phonetic Spelling: (nay) Part of Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle Short Definition: by (a particle of affirmation employed in oaths) Meaning: by (a particle of affirmation employed in oaths) Strong's Concordance by, as sure asProbably an intensive form of nai; a particle of attestation (accompanied by the object invoked or appealed to in confirmation); as sure as -- I protest by. see GREEK nai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3513: νήνή, a particle employed in affirmations and oaths (common in Attic), and joined to an accusative of the person (for the most part, a divinity) or of the thing affirmed or sworn by (Buttmann, § 149, 17); by (Latinper, German bei): 1 Corinthians 15:31 (Genesis 42:15f). |