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νή

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νή

Sense

  1. (used to express strong affirmation, with accusative case of the divinity invoked) by
  2. (in answers)

Note

ναί

Examples

  • ἐν τούτῳ φανεῖσθε. νὴ τὴν ὑγίειαν Φαραώ, οὐ μὴ ἐξέλθητε ἐντεῦθεν, ἐὰν μὴ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ὑμῶν ὁ νεώτεροσ ἔλθῃ ὧδε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:15)
  • ἀποστείλατε ἐξ ὑμῶν ἕνα καὶ λάβετε τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὑμῶν, ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἀπάχθητε ἕωσ τοῦ φανερὰ γενέσθαι τὰ ρήματα ὑμῶν, εἰ ἀληθεύετε ἢ οὔ. εἰ δὲ μή, νὴ τὴν ὑγίειαν Φαραώ, ἦ μὴν κατάσκοποί ἐστε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:16)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἀνδρῶν δικαίων χρόνοσ σωτὴρ ἄριστοσ κατὰ Πίνδαρον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τεχνῶν νὴ Δία καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων γε καὶ παντὸσ ἄλλου σπουδαίου χρήματοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 21)
  • νὴ καὶ σύ γε, ὦ νεανίσκε. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 7:1)
  • "χρὴ δὲ πρὸσ ταῦτα λογίζεσθαι ὅτι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν διασαπέντων ἢ καὶ νὴ Δία καέντων μετ’ ὀλίγον, εἴ γε καῦσαί με διεγνώκατε, οὔτε σκότοσ οὔτε φῶσ ὁρᾶν δεησόμεθα. (Lucian, (no name) 16:15)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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