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Adverb oudamōs (by no means) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 2: 6 | 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means (oudamōs) least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.'" |
2 Maccabees (LXX)
| 9: 7 | Howbeit he has by no means (oudamōs) ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained. |
| 9: 18 | But as all this his pains would by no means (oudamōs) cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner: |
| 11: 4 | considering by no means (oudamōs) the power of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants. |
3 Maccabees (LXX)
| 1: 11 | And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means (oudamōs) give way. |
| 2: 24 | When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused by no means (oudamōs) repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. |
| 3: 6 | What all the rest of mankind said, was by no means (oudamōs), however, made of account by the foreigners; |
4 Maccabees (LXX)
| 18: 5 | And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was by no means (oudamōs) able to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers, |
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